Fate Destiny Quotes

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed. ~ Janet Morris

Life picks us up and throws us around, but for the most part we're aimed in the right direction where we can learn the lessons of our Earthwalk ~ Karl Wiggins

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

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner. ~ Alfred Doblin

Is it later yet? ~ Jennifer E. Smith

I need to fall in love with a hopeless romantic. Someone who would tell me that my eyes are like the stars at night and how my morning bed hair looks like a windswept forest that dances whenever the sky cries every time the ocean quenches her thirst for love. Someone who believes in fate, destiny, and magic. Someone who believes that finding true love is a necessity to cope up with the sadness and agony that life brings. Someone who believes that I exist. ~ Juansen Dizon

Anna, I only know this: when it is your turn to die - my turn, anyone's - when it is time for you to let go of one life and reach out for another, you will be left with no choice but to hurl yourself willingly into the mother arms of transfiguration. It's not an end. It's a beginning. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to be learned from every moment, every experience we encounter during the brief time we spend on this planet. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you will; it really doesn't matter. ~ Syd Field

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is actually a self made web of fate. ~ Steven Redhead

Look," I said, "there are plenty of people in the world who believe our destiny is in the hands of some old white guy sitting above us dealing out rewards and punishment like...some old white guy. What I believe makes more sense than that. Some things are meant to be. Fate, destiny, karma-whatever you want to call it. The universe has plans- we just aren't smart enough to know how it works. ~ Graeme Simsion

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. ~ Horace

And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do. ~ Robert Beatty

The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom. ~ Jayne Castel

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. ~ Aldous Huxley

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find. ~ Lord Byron

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book ... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters ... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp. ~ Ethan Gilsdorf

Your problem is that you're more like an empty book and you're waiting on someone else to write your pages for you. For someone who doesn't believe in fate, destiny and all that shit, you seem to spend an awful lot of time waiting for something to happen to you. ~ Garry Crystal

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate. ~ Samuel Butler

What separates the wise from the unwise is; how a person reacts and responds to each new twist of fate. ~ Aditya Ajmera

We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am the master of my destiny. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The irony of life is a twisted game; but my god you learn fast, the ins and outs of how to play your part the best you can. ~ Nikki Rowe

I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. ~ Marcus Garvey

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~ William McFee

Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny.
The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.
Each must assimilate the spirit of other religion and yet preserve his individuality and follow his own law of growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda

The universe whispered it's him, but I sent you away ~ I tested our connection and left it to fate,
Years have passed and others have come into our lives, but here we are again, meeting another time.
Our timing is off, so we set our connection free once again, trusting the winds of fate and the synchronicity it sends. ~ Nikki Rowe

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate. ~ Friedrich Schiller

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined. ~ Seneca The Younger

Fate, Destiny, whatever you want to call it. The point is, maybe we met for a reason. ~ Once Upon A Time

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle. ~ Liz Greene

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. ~ Howard Thurman

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

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

Despite having no definitive path, we all have places to go, people to meet, feelings to feel. Love, friendship and happiness are the luck you get given to you. What you do with them is the luck you make for yourself. We all have a meant to be, whether we believe in fate, destiny, or nothing at all. Do we decide our meant to be, or do we get it chosen for us? Do we get more than one option? If we do, what if we go through them all then decide the first one was the best option, do we get a second chance? No. There are no second chances in life, no rewind button. You don't get a do-over, so if you want something you have to run, smash into it and grab it with everything you have. You have to take it and hold onto it tightly before it's too late. One life. One chance. One love. ~ Emma Hart

Fate is nonawareness. ~ Jan Kott

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings ... ~ Charles W. Chesnutt

A wise one determines his own fate. ~ Janet Morris

Blurred is the picture,
To not know what's next!
Is it the laughter that awaits,
Or sorrows lined up to dictate.
Untold, unclear is ...
A story of our fate! ~ Somya Kedia

She gave a little sob deep in her throat.

'Call it a prophecy, call it a prediction, call it fate - call it what you will. I fought against it hard enough, God knows. But the evidence of my own eyes, my own ears, my own senses, is too much for me. And the time's too short now. I'm afraid to take a chance. I haven't got the nerve to bluff it out, to sit pat. You don't gamble with a human life. Today's the 13th, isn't it? It's too close to the 14th; there isn't time-margin enough left now to be skeptical, to keep it to myself any longer. Day by day I've watched him cross off the date on his desk-calendar, drawing nearer to death. There are only two leaves left now, and I want help! Because on the 14th - at the exact stroke of midnight, as the 15th is beginning -'

She covered her face with both arms and shook silently.

'Yes?' urged McManus. 'Yes?'

'He's become convinced - oh, and almost I have too - that at exactly midnight on the 14th he's to die. Not just die but meet his death in full vigor and health, a death rushing down to him from the stars he was born under - rushing down even before he existed at all. A death inexorable, inescapable. A death horrid and violent, inconceivable here in this part of the world where we live.'

She took a deep, shuddering breath, whispered the rest of it. 'Death at the jaws of a lion.' ("Speak To Me Of Death") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread. ~ Zelda Popkin

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. ~ Seneca The Younger

Think of the cafeteria as a road map to where you belong." Danielle pointed to the beautiful people in one corner. "Princesses and Princes over here. Then you have Heroes - leading ladies and gents that aren't royalty - Sidekicks, Villains, Pirates, Faeries, Future Animal Friends, and the ones scattered are extras - not too important but important enough to be here. Like I said, everyone sticks to their own kind."
"Who are you?"
"Cinderella of course," Danielle giggled. ~ Angela Parkhurst

Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us ~ Mimi Novic

Control your fate or somebody else will ~ Heinrich Von Pierer

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. ~ Mary Kay Ash

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. ~ Robert Breault

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. ~ Booth Tarkington

Your thoughts are your fate.
Think positively. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo. ~ Joseph Addison

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama. This remorseless inevitableness is what pervades scientific thought. The laws of physics are the decrees of fate. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Love the people with whom fate brings you together ~ Marcus Aurelius

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate. ~ Big Pun

I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything. ~ Tiffanie DeBartolo

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live. ~ William Shakespeare

By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural for us to want to be accountable for our own fates because there is a whispering within us confirming that this accountability is absolutely essential to the attainment of our eternal destiny. ~ Dean L. Larsen

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep . ~ Carl Jung

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. ~ Voltaire

I guess there's always a price to pay when you cheat fate. ~ Sheena Hutchinson

What we decide does not mean will always happen, so be content with what you are ~ Sadashivan Nair

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you. ~ Ben Okri

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. ~ Denis Waitley

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will. ~ Anthon St. Maarten

With faith, you can find your fate. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into. ~ Wyatt Earp

I face my demons and embrace my fate. ~ Lynda Bellingham

Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not. ~ Blair Underwood

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be. ~ Ilya Ehrenburg

I am the master of my mind and fate. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Fate is a great accident. ~ Arvo Ylppo

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. ~ Diana Trilling

sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life ~ Sadashivan Nair

One of those cases where you couldn't just fold. God, across the table of Fate, was picking His nose, scratching His ear, laying on tells with a prodigal hand, it had to mean something, and a faulty guess would be better than none. ~ Thomas Pynchon

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working. ~ John C. Maxwell

Even the dry and dusty arid desert air could not get her sweet perfume out of his nostrils. That one night was all it took. She stole his heart; he could do nothing about it, but accept his fate. ~ Virginia Alison

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. ~ Carl Jung

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. ~ Joe Budden

There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned. ~ Soroosh Shahrivar

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. ~ Nancy Pickard

Some things do not come to us automatically; we must induce them to come our way. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate. ~ Bill Paxton

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless. ~ Hermann Hesse

Who can control his fate? ~ William Shakespeare

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. ~ Appius Claudius Caecus

I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country. ~ John Quincy Adams

Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people. ~ Pythagoras

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all. ~ Robert Breault

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered ~ Benito Mussolini

Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability ... they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque. ~ Arthur Koestler

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness. ~ Umberto Eco

Character is fate. (Destiny). ~ Heraclitus