Destiny Quotes

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, ...

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, movin...

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable t...

There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it...

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to wr...

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtes...

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspec...

You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with G...

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - wh...

The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is...

Faustina is a great work of the Creator. She has nothing of what you call brains; she doesn't need t...

Years have passed, I suppose. I'm not really counting them anymore. But I think of this thing often:...

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they canno...

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything do...

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I ...

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a char...

Do you know what it's like to be condemned to love?

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day...

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a...

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million.

Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was t...

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

... for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eterna...

I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each ...

A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change noth...

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Come on, Doctor... we got places to go.

This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must ...

I've never felt normal, because I'm not normal, and I don't wanna be. I've had to face death and los...

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour t...

Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw...

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell ...

You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last.Granny shrugged. “Something like that. Probably. Who kno...

You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows...

The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivio...

Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when y...

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, b...

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own perso...

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with an...

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God'...

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all i...

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled...

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcom...

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their con...

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fat...

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, ...

That it was no doubt a dark hour, but that he should get through it; that after all he held his dest...

a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have t...

See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more...

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling ...

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love...

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass hi...

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it ...

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is ...

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresist...

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, wit...

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already ...

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory...

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality...

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers bu...

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a...