Quotes About Destiny

The indignity of your fate is the will of one more powerful.

Yet if thou wilt, as 'tis destiny of trodden worms to writhe till they are dead, put forth thy might.

Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away, Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind; How long will horror nerve this frame of clay? I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind. Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell, And yet that may not ever, ever be, Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell; Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me; Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny.

A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shore.

Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.

I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something....

By inserting the letters of His name into the names of the Hebrew people, their destiny was altered, and their future was revealed. Joshua is the Hebrew name Yehoshuah, meaning "God shall save". It is also the Hebrew name for Jesus. Joshua would save the nation of Israel, even as Jesus would save the wicked from their sins (Matt. 1:21).

When you are on the edge of your purpose, the ledge upon which you stand might begin to shake.

I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be     blessed.

Grace for the race is grace for your mission.

Grace for the place is grace for your position.

Go and wake up your luck.

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

God uses young people again and again to help restore and shape the destiny of nations...Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.

Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.

Destiny? My destiny is what I make of it!

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. —C. G. Jung

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

You came back here that day with a word written on your forehead that I could read: 'Succeed! Succeed at any price.' " To which Vautrin responds: "Bravo! That's the kind of fellow I like." (SC 111/P 3:139) To revolt is to take destiny into your own hands by a decisive act.

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know?

Fate offers sweet melons to some, sour melons to others,

I hear Aslan's words to Shasta: "'Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story. . . . I tell no one any story but his own.

The exodus, in fact, is really all about getting to Mount Sinai, and how the events there prepare the Israelites for their ultimate destiny—a kingdom in a land of their own.