Quotes about destiny

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

— James Allen

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Ambrose Bierce

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

— Catherine Booth

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage]

— Christie Brinkley

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.

— William Jennings Bryan

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it

— Leo Buscaglia

We write our own destiny; we become what we do.

— Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

— Robert Clive

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

— Aleister Crowley

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

— Princess of Wales Diana

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

— Tryon Edwards

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

— Albert Einstein

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

— Epictetus

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s.

— Epictetus

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

— Edward M. Forster

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

Anatomy is destiny.

— Sigmund Freud

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

The destiny of man is in his own soul

— Herodotus

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

— John Oliver Hobbes

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

— Kin Hubbard

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

— John F. Kennedy

What God writes on your forehead you will become.

— The Koran

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

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.

— Henry Miller

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

— Alfred A. Montapert

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

— Francois Muriac

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.

— Jan Patocka

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

— French Proverb

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

— French Proverb

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

— Yiddish Proverb

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.

— Anthony Robbins

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

— Anthony Robbins

Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.

— Harriet Rosenstein

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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.

— David Seabury

Such as we are made of, such we be.

— William Shakespeare

We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.

— Source Unknown

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

— Simone Weil

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.

— Alfred North Whitehead

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

— Lewis Carroll

the choices we make and the chances we take, determine our destiny.

— Source Unknown

In the universal picture of life, if choices are “A” and “B”, outcome “A” will always be equal to outcome “B”.

— Fausto Gil

Destiny is a fair bank account, righteousness goes debit, wrong doing goes credit; your bank is God

— Fausto Gil

Destiny is a fair bank account, righteousness goes debit, wrong doing goes credit, and your bank is infalible.

— Fausto Gil

Character determines destiny.

— Mak Kazeronnie

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

— Martin Heidegger

We become who we need to be when our destiny demands it of us

— Stephen Lesanjo