Fate & Destiny Quotes

The destiny of man is in his own soul

Herodotus

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

Mary Wortley Montagu

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

Chinese Proverb

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward George BulwerLytton

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward George BulwerLytton

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm going to be if I grow up'.

Lenny Bruce

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Albert Einstein

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

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Sir Thomas Browne

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Fidel Castro

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

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

Friedrich von Schiller

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

Tryon Edwards

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

Harriet Rosenstein

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Source Unknown

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 von Goethe

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

Johann von Goethe