Quotes About Destiny

William Shakespeare

We are in God's hand.

Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,That ever I was born to set it right!

We ready are to try our fortunesTo the last man.

Answer me in one word.

You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.

As good luck would have it.

It makes us, or it mars us.

I shall laugh myself to death.

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

We are born into mystery and we leave life in mystery.

Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.