Destiny Quotes

Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

~ Tom Conrad

There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

~ Emma Goldman

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

~ William Goldman

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

~ Michael Moorcock

But how will I know it's my destiny?' 'Like love it will possess you... You can't help but know.

~ Gail Tsukiyama

Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.

~ Pat Conroy

Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.

~ Nick Joaquín

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

~ Sheldon Vanauken

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra

~ Aeschylus

The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny. Rather, it is a multidimensional dynamic entity that interacts with all things, even the very smallest. And what part we each place in it and the effect we have on it is a matter of our own choice.

~ R.g. Risch

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

When we come under the spell of the deeper domain of technology, its economic character and even its power aspect fascinate us less than its playful side. Then we realize we that we are involved in a play, a dance of the spirit, which cannot be grasped by calculation. What is ultimately left for science is intuition alone - a call of destiny.This playful feature manifests itself more clearly in small things than in the gigantic works of our world. The crude observer can only be impressed by large quantities - chiefly when they are in motion - and yet there are as many organs in a fly as in a leviathan.

~ Ernst Jünger

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.

~ Sorin Cerin

Come forth, Paladins!Fulfill your destiny!

~ Andry Chang

As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead.

~ E.m. Forster

He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not.

~ Stephen King

Denigrating free will by confusing it with ka was worse than blasphemy, it was tiresome and stupid.

~ Stephen King

ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what you do

~ Jay Woodman

Angels are not supernatural beings who come from heaven knows where. Angels are human beings who consciously – or not – choose to be at the right place and at the right time to play their role in the universe. You are destined to be an angel.

~ Charbel Tadros

All paths are seen, through the prism of fate

~ Mladen Đorđević

We don’t do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

My arrival saved the kingdom, while his only reiterated that his blood would fill the throne one day.

~ Mindy Mcginnis

I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Oh Killian. Five immense cliffs rose up from the sea in marvelous grandeur. They were as tall and craggy and enormous as any mountains she'd seen in paintings. The layers of rock were varied in color and the radiant sunset playing against them only added to the enchantment of the location. She watched as waves crashed against the monumental stone walls.

~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

~ Sigmund Freud

You don't begin with a destiny. It is the sum total of your choices. The first and the last are especially important.

~ Brent M. Jones

Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Condition A must be in place for action B to take place

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Never get angry against fate, she is looking for someone to crush, why put a spotlight on yourself?

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are the products of fate, from beginning to end

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You are not what you want, you are what you have been made to be

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Well, this has been some shit.

~ Pat Shand