Quotes About Destiny

Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.

I believe that nothing is an accident. Everything happens for a reason. And everyone you meet and everyone you come into contact with it's meant to happen.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

I became a free agent in 1999. I retired, that's how I got out of my contract. From that moment on, I've always been in control of my own destiny.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn't choose music. Music chose me.

The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

Part of the point of SETI has always been a search for answers about our own cosmic potential and destiny. If 'they' are out there, it means that there may be hope for us.

Every once in a while, it seems like the cosmos part, and something great plops into your lap.

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

I've never known a day of my life that I didn't want to sing country music. I really did always know that it was my destiny.

I didn't start out to be a country singer. It just happened that way.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

I'm not afraid of people; I'm afraid of not doing what God created me to do.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

We must all remember life doesn't have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.