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Quotes About Destiny

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
~ Thomas Harris
The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.
~ Denzel Washington
If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
~ William Stafford
Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.
~ James Scott Bell
We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.
~ Rick Warren
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
~ Anne Sexton
...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.
~ George MacDonald
The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.
~ Neon Hitch
Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.
~ Rick Yancey
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
~ Stonewall Jackson
We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.
~ Robert D. Hales
Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
~ Tryon Edwards
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
~ John Calvin
Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.
~ Libba Bray
I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
~ Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.
~ Lu Xun
No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Love is only one fine star away.
~ Stevie Nicks
Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.
~ Lu Xun
Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.
~ Israel Zangwill
You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.
~ Rick Riordan