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Quotes About Destiny

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
~ Joseph Campbell
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
~ Iris Murdoch
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.
~ C. S. Lewis
We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
~ Andre Maurois
I believe in giving everything my best shot. I do not believe in holding back. I am very driven by the fact that we are destined with these opportunities.
~ Shailender Singh
You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.
~ Lacey Sturm
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
~ Joseph Campbell
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
~ Anne Sexton
If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.
~ Frederic Farrar
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
~ Joseph Campbell
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
~ Seneca the Younger
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Are we not all immortal till our work is done?
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
~ C. S. Lewis
Chance favors only those who court her.
~ Charles Nicolle
Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.
~ Max Lucado
I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
~ Bob Dylan
We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
What you plan is too small for you to live.
~ David Whyte
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
~ Germaine Greer