Destiny Quotes

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying t...

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, o...

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more...

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any relig...

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it ...

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it...

Character is destiny

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this s...

An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope ...

An enlightened man had but one duty--to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope ...

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c...

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My d...

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it...

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

Then the prophecies of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a fashion!” said Bilbo. “Of c...

You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, a...

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiti...

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, an...

Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married, had five kids. One day he came home from work and told ...

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what it will...

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is f...

The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. ...

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future harde...

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals...

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in ...

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn wh...

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted ...

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Ro...

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front...

Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be d...

Know Thyself, a wise old Greek once said. Know Thyself. Now what does this mean, boys and girls? It ...

Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors -- he told them -- appointed to the work by the period...

I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he c...

From the twilight of day till the twilight of evening, a leopard, in the last years of the thirteent...

Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has...

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species w...

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face ...

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face ...

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which mak...

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopp...

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual...

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorr...

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that i...

Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your ...

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular f...

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...

Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you...

Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules."You can't really bel...

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives ...

Kill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or ho...

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your o...

...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, onl...

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years...

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserv...

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to b...

A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go...

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of ...

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you ...

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian ascet...

From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea...

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the...

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and disca...

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled i...

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, e...

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...