Destiny Quotes

That that is is.

~ William Shakespeare

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

~ Samuel Butler

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

Certain signs precede certain events.

~ Cicero

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

~ W. S. Gilbert

Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

~ Seneca

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

~ Justus Lipsius

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

~ French Proverb

It is a long road from conception to completion.

~ Molière

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

~ Sophie Rostopchine Sigur

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

~ Latin Proverb

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

~ Henry Miller

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.

~ The Koran

When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.

~ Persian Proverb

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

~ Kin Hubbard

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

~ Beyoncé Knowles

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

~ Tony Robbins

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

~ Hill Harper

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

~ Anupam Kher

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.

~ David Levering Lewis

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

~ Herodotus

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

~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

~ Alia Bhatt

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

~ Marcel Marceau

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

~ Laura Esquivel

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

~ Shaquille O'neal

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

~ Cory Booker

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

~ Winston Churchill

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

~ Oscar De La Renta

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

~ Kofi Annan

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

~ Jimmy Carter

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

~ Huey Newton

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.

~ Bobby Seale