Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Fate & Destiny.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we
Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbe
All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd long:In prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
Alfred A. Montapert
''Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Sh
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Virgil
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
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
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.
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
Proverb
Must, bid the Morn awake!Sad Winter now declines,Each bird doth choose a mate;This day's Saint Valentine's.For that good bishop's sakeGet up and let us seeWhat beauty it shall beThat Fortune us assigns.
Michael Drayton
It is better to run back than run the wrong way.
You cannot be lost on a road that is straight.
Step by step one goes very far.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
Richard Hovey
