Quotes About Destiny

We all live under the same sky but we don't all have the same horizon. —KONRAD ADENAUER

William Jennings Bryan said, "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

We've all heard the old cliché God moves in mysterious ways. It's probably more accurate to say that God specializes in surprising us. A God-surprise... - is unexpected and unexplainable, - disrupts the status quo, - turns the ordinary into the spectacular, - shows you how much bigger God is than what you have known or seen, - changes your expectations and your destiny, and - leaves no room for doubt-- God is God.

poet Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts." —NAPOLEON HILL

Focusing on the destination is not a good idea. Tomorrow may come; it may not. The only place we really have any power is in the present.

Affirmation from others is fickle and fleeting. If you want to make an impact during your lifetime, you have to trade the praise you could receive from others for the things of value that you can accomplish. You can't be "one of the boys" and follow your destiny at the same time.

I believe that no matter what "plot" each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives to matter. We want our stories to be of significance.

As I approach my fortieth birthday without having accomplished any one of the things I intended to accomplish—without ever having achieved the deep creativity that I have worked toward for all this time—I feel that I take a minor, an obscure, a dim position that is not my destiny but that is my fault, as if I had lacked, somewhere along the line, the wit and courage to contain myself competently within the shapes at hand.

Who are we to question God's decisions about where we'll be born?…God does what He chooses without asking our opinions. Of that I'm sure.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Sometimes the future has been determined from the outset, and as hard as anything we try, nonetheless we cannot change. It's not fair right? This is indeed difficult to accept. But that's what is called life, because life is not fair.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

In hard times we ask God the reason for giving us such hard life, but God never promised us an easy journey. He only promised us great destiny. Depending upon our power to fight the odds.

Life does not come with a manual. We have to let it runs it course and trust that where ever it takes us is where we are meant to be.

I don't understand why destiny allowed some people to meet, when there's no way for them to be together.

It's easy to fall in love, but to find the right one to fall in love with is the hard part.

When you meet that special someone you'll understand why it didn't work out with anyone else

Yearn for where you want to go, not for where you have already been: Your future will be better, your days will be brighter, and your nights will be filled with the glorious heavens.

Everything happens for a reason. That's why worrying is silly. It's like trying to heal a wound that's not even bleeding.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

No one likes to be rejected, but realize that rejection is a sign that you're trying to be with someone that you're not meant to be with.

When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who left.

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive