Quotes About Destiny

it is the privilege and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times

And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place, in any time, and that, as Heraclitus had said two thousand years earlier, a man's ethos, his way of being in the world, was his daimon, the guiding principle that shaped his life – or, in the pithier, more familiar formulation of the idea, that character was destiny.

and perhaps by something more; because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.

Güzellik de bir tür kaderdir, güzellik güzellikle konuÅŸur, fark?na var?r ve onaylar, her konuda mazur görülebileceÄŸine inan?r...

He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.

because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.

Our names contain our fates; living as we do in a place where names have not acquired the meaninglessness of the West, and are still more than mere sounds, we are also the victims of our titles.

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!

It seems that if our species ever eradicates itself through war, it will not be because it was written in the stars but because it was written in our books; it is what we do with words like 'God' and 'paradise' and ''sin' in the present that will determine our future.

Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang.

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose.

Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

We are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We are warriors of light, and with the strength of our love and of our will we can change our destiny and that of many other people.

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

You are the creator of your own destiny

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.