destiny quotes

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

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I bear a charmed life.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Intimates are predestined.

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

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Character is destiny.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

A man’s character is his fate.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.