Destiny Quotes
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
To bear is to conquer our fate. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it. (Quote by - Guy Finley)
Every person sets his or her destiny. This I am sure about. Nothing happens by chance. You make a plan and decide to make it happen. (Quote by - Alfredo Karras)
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. (Quote by - Agnes DeMille)
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. (Quote by - Novalis)
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Quote by - Franklin D Roosevelt)
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. (Quote by - Carl Schurz)
Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out. (Quote by - Michael Garrett Marino)
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
We are but as the instrument of Heaven.Our work is not design, but destiny. (Quote by - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton)
I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins. (Quote by - Eric Avery)
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. (Quote by - Duke Ellington)
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. (Quote by - Donald Trump)
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honour scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I feel that I am a man of destiny. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant )
Alas! we are the sport of destiny. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall." (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. (Quote by - C Wright Mills)
Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. (Quote by - Caroline Dhavernas)
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
It' in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. (Quote by - David Seabury)
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, forever. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
Destiny is always dark. (Quote by - George Herbert)
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. (Quote by - James Allen)
And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny. (Quote by - Paul Acquasanta)
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental counduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff And good from bad find no partition. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then. (Quote by - Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton)
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
Men are what their mothers made them. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. (Quote by - Princess Diana)
I stood there all day with a plastic angel in my pocket. I believe in fate - I'm as silly as a bunch of lights! (Quote by - Harry Redknapp)
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. (Quote by - Mikhail Dudan)
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. (Quote by - Daniel Defoe)
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
No matter where you go, however far away, a part of me will be with you and a part of you, with me, will stay But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. (Quote by - John Oliver Hobbes)
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
If the American dream is for Americans only, it will remain our dream and never be our destiny (Quote by - Rene de Visme Williamson)
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
In life, the only certainty is uncertainty. (Quote by - Robert Levine)
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. (Quote by - Ariel Dorfman)
O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor To those of mine! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. (Quote by - French Proverb)
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. (Quote by - Alfred A Montapert)
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap adestiny. (Quote by - Anon xxxx)
For rarely man escapes his destiny. (Quote by - Ludovico Ariosto)
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
Let us never, never forget that we are the masters of our destiny. No one in all the universes writes our script. We do that, in co-creation with our brothers. As we rewrite our script, our brother must do likewise or leave the stage of our drama. (Quote by - Peter Erbe)
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people. (Quote by - Tom Baker)
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. (Quote by - Frank Outlaw)
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. (Quote by - Orison S. Marden)
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory. (Quote by - Che Guavara)
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. (Quote by - Alexander the Great)
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Quote by - Norm Crosby)
A few weeks will probably determine our fate. Perfect freedom, or Absolute Slavery. To some of us freedom or a halter. (Quote by - Abraham Clark)
I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her destiny with great power for a specific purpose to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love. (Quote by - zzz)
They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep. (Quote by - Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton)
Hanging and Riving goes by destiny. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. (Quote by - Arthur Rimbaud)
And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Destiny, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. (Quote by - Homer)
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread. (Quote by - Homer)
His game embraced a contempt for his fate, a fomaing fury, because to him cricket was a game of kill or be killed, a street fighter in which it was left to the umpires to keep peace on Viv Richards (Quote by - Peter Roebuck)
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. (Quote by - Jean Nidetch)
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. (Quote by - Booth Tarkington)
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Every man meets his Waterloo at last. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
My whole life has been decided by fate. (Quote by - Sharon Tate)
Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot. (Quote by - J. Weber)
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
