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Quotes About Destiny

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
~ Gautama Buddha
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
~ Elvis Presley
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
~ Stendhal
It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
~ Joel Osteen
Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
~ Allan Sherman
Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.
~ K. Hari Kumar
You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
~ Chuck Norris
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
~ Ken Follett
The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]
~ Plautus
Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.
~ Hiroko Sakai
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.
~ Robin Sharma
It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
~ Bill Walton
God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.
~ Richard Jeni
Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.
~ Wess Roberts
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
~ Elbert Hubbard
One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
~ Rumi
The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.
~ Germany Kent
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
~ James Russell Lowell