quotations about destiny
Destiny will show when it's time.
ERIC HARVEY
Freedom of Speech Writing Out Loud
Sliding down Destiny's rainbow,
Leaving all my worries behind.
Sliding down Destiny's rainbow,
Fate will find me safe in the skies above.
SHEAVY
"Destiny's Rainbow", The Electric Sleep
Destiny is a realm of opportunity.
KYONNE M. GIBSON
Expressions of the Heart
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
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
Know that it's your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
ANTHONY ROBBINS
Awaken the Giant Within
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
SIMONE DE BOUVOIR
The Coming of Age
Like destiny's children
Souls lost at sea
No room on the lifeboat
You can hold on to me
JOHN DENVER
"Hold on to Me", Different Directions
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
CESARE PAVESE
The Devil in the Hills
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
GEORGE ARNOLD
"Recrimination"
Betimes I have heard people bewail the fact that our destinies are shrouded in mystery; I think, though, that it is a blessing of sorts. Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us untasted.
JACQUELINE CAREY
Kushiel's Dart
A girl with a good figure can often shape her own destiny.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Long tarries destiny,
But comes to those who pray.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Pourers
Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
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
attributed, In Pursuit of Destiny
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
Peace
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.
G. C. LICHTENBERG
attributed, The New Webster Quotation Dictionary
What are the thoughts of the canvas on which a masterpiece is being painted? "I am being soiled, brutally treated and concealed from view." Thus men grumble at their destiny, however fair.
JEAN COCTEAU
A Call to Order
To be always on the move, learning, discovering, unfolding, is your eternal destiny. Living is life's only purpose... To live without self-concern.
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
I Am That
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEIDRICH HEGEL
Theologische Jugenschriften
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
speech in the House of Commons, Feb. 27, 1945