The Destined Quotes

Lost things never like to be found until they've been forgotten. ~ E.J. Mellow

For since men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others, and yet are unable to adhere exactly to those paths which others have taken, or attain to the virtues of those whom they would resemble, the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour. Acting in this like the skilful archer, who seeing that the object he would hit is distant, and knowing the range of his bow, takes aim much above the destined mark; not designing that his arrow should strike so high, but that flying high it may alight at the point intended. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

God saved us to make us holy, not happy. Some experiences may not contribute to our happiness, but all can be made to contribute to our holiness. Vance Havner
The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints. ~ Oswald Chambers

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it. ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

We must become the person who is ready to accept the thing/s that we want. Sometimes, what you want is already waiting for you, alongside the person that you are capable of becoming. Alongside the destined you. So in between here and there, you have that journey, that process, of becoming that person. Wiser, stronger, gentler. We think that to attain what we want, means simply to achieve what we wish to attain. But if we could only see ourselves
our destined selves
already there in the future, standing hand-in-hand with our desires, we would always know that our worthy desires are objects that call us unto a higher calling, a higher state of existence. ~ C. JoyBell C.

We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man. ~ Oswald Spengler

If slavery be the destined sword of the hand of the destroying angel which is to sever the ties of this Union, the same sword will cut in sunder the bonds of slavery itself. A dissolution of the Union for the cause of slavery would be followed by a servile war in the slave-holding States, combined with a war between the two severed portions of the Union. It seems to me that its result might be the extirpation of slavery from this whole continent; and, calamitous and desolating as this course of events in its progress must be, so glorious would be its final issue, that, as God shall judge me, I dare not say that it is not to be desired. ~ John Quincy Adams

Sometimes ordinary people are destined for extraordinary lives. ~ Dannika Dark

Many of us are destined to be alone, while most of us sentence ourselves to it. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

You say good-bye, and you think you'll be free. But I'll be awaiting you, in your final destiny. ~ Haidji

My secret world of bosom sculpting is crashing down around me. I'm destined for bra-stuffing rehab in a distant boobicus minimus land. I just know it. ~ Amy Holder

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention. ~ Mark Batterson

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. ~ Henrik Ibsen

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star. ~ Chris Elliott

A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions ... ~ Umberto Eco

I was destined to express myself. ~ Gina Carano

Problem with attempting to live up to other people's expectations was that you were destined to fail before you even began. I ~ Denise Grover Swank

They say people who
don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. ~ Susan Mallery

If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. ~ Donald Harington

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...It was only ninety-four pages long, and so obviously wretchedly written it was destined to become a huge fad ~ Connie Willis

If someone could reach into my chest and tear out my heart and turn it into a living, breathing person, Isaiah would be it. ~ Airicka Phoenix

As much as we wanted to hate each other, we never could because we were always connected and destined. "What ~ Mz. Toni

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

It appears I am destined for something; I will live. ~ Robert Clive

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor. ~ John Catsimatidis

I've waited so very long for this. For you. For someone as beautiful, both inside and out, as you, my beloved Brianna. Do you not see? 'Tis no accident that you're here. We were destined through time, through eternity, to meet. To love. ~ Ruth Ryan Langan

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family. ~ Max Lucado

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do. ~ Stuart Hamm

Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell. ~ George Monbiot

An icy slither ran up my core as I stared at my right hand, its tremors Richter scale violent. Was this my demon-killing ability? Destined to be some supernatural whore luring hell spawn into back alleys for deadly rub and tugs? ~ Deborah Wilde

She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it. ~ Cory Doctorow

Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in. ~ John-Talmage Mathis

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician. ~ Nicola Sturgeon

Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read. ~ Rebecca Raisin

Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there. ~ Nick Bilton

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress. ~ Kirsten Dunst

No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

I feel like I was born to do this ... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life. ~ Idina Menzel

We will never be more that we have been destined to be! ~ Sorin Cerin

Your belief that you can fly will not give you wings. Don't you be foolish enough to jump off a cliff believing that you can and are destined to fly. ~ Rajesh`

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do. ~ Sally Field

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do. ~ Frank Deford

Through lifetimes of journeys our stories abound, but where we are destined is yet to be found. ~ Robert Chomany

It is desire that pulls us forward. If a desire is fulfilled, are we forever destined to find another to take its place? ~ Kate McGahan

Finn was meant to find that journal. To find me. To be a salve, and perhaps even heal, a heart I'd worried was destined to ache forever. ~ Jessica Hawkins

You don't realize but broken pieces aren't meant to fit. They are meant to remain scattered. They are destined to look like an art. ~ Nitya Prakash

We can't fight destiny, those who fight destiny were destined to do it ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some people are simply destined for meteoric lives, magnificently bright and awesome for a while until they slowly burnout and fade to black. ~ Michael Bowe

Some people are destined to dream (some, indeed, are paid rather well to do so); some are born to work, practical and concrete and tireless; and there are others who are like a river, who flow effortlessly down from source to mouth, hardly straying from its bed. ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Here's something for you all to jot down on your little pads: a crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else they could get through it? I've never liked that people seem to think that anyone who's been brought up in care are destined to lead a life of poverty and crime. It's postcode lottery. ~ Suzanne Wright