Quotes About Destiny

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools

I did not usurp the crown; it was in the gutter and I picked it out.

Le hasard est le seul roi légitime dans l'univers.

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.

No matter where you go, however far away, a part of me will be with you and a part of you, with me, will stay But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.

Napoléon ubicumque felix.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Trust what you love, continue to do it and it will take you where you need to go.

Geography is fate.

It's as if what was to come was already laid out before us, that our fate lay in the geography toward which we were blithely driving.

The sacred geometry of chance, sir.

There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.