Quotes About Destiny

Die at the right time

Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom.

You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands

Many die too late, and some die too early.

Amo os que não procuram por detrás das estrelas uma razão para morrer e oferecer-se em sacrifício, mas se sacrificam pela terra, para que a terra pertença um dia ao Super-homem.

You lonely of today, you withdrawing ones, one day you shall be a people: from you that have chosen yourselves a chosen people shall grow and from them the overman.

Though the favourites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We have invented the concept "goal": in reality, goals are absent . . .

Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership.   [408]

I must first go down deeper than ever I descended—deeper into pain than ever I descended, down into its blackest flood. Thus my destiny wants it….Whence come the highest mountains? I once asked. Then I learned that they came out of the sea. The evidence is written in their rocks and in the walls of their peaks. It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height

They rule, not because they want to, but because they are; they are not at liberty to play second.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!

seseorang yag merasa dirinya ditakdirkan untuk megamati dan bukan meyakini akan menemukan bahwa semua penganut terlalu cerewet dan suka mendesak: dia akan menolak mereka

A people is nature's roundabout way of getting six or seven great men. – Yes: and then of getting around them.

What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or want to see today: selection in favor of the stronger, in favor of those who have come off better, the progress of the species. The very opposite is quite palpably the case: the elimination of the strokes of luck, the uselessness of the better-constituted types, the inevitable domination achieved by the average, even below-average types.

Au existat pân? acum o mie de scopuri, c?ci au existat o mie de popoare. Doar lanÅ£ul pe cele-o mie de capete lipseÅŸte, lipseÅŸte înc? un singur scop. Umanitatea n-are înc? scop. Dar spuneÅ£i-mi, voi, fraÅ£i ai mei: dac? umanit??ii îi lipseÅŸte scopul, nu-nseamn? oare c? ea îns??i nu exist? înc??

You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you! You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

No victor believes in chance.

For the highest man shall also be the highest lord on earth. There is no sorer misfortune in all human destiny, than when the mighty of the earth are not also the first men. Then everything becomes false and distorted and monstrous. And when they are even the last men, and more beast than man, then rises and rises the populace in honour, and at last says even the populace-virtue: 'Behold, I alone am virtue!

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: Die at the right time!

Cualquier camino es solo un camino y no es vergonzoso, ni para uno mismo ni para los demás, abandonarlo si así te lo dicta tu corazón [...] Observa detalladamente cada uno de los caminos. Ponlos a prueba tantas veces como creas necesario. Luego pregúntate a ti mismo, y solo a ti mismo, lo siguiente: «¿Tiene corazón este camino?». Si lo tiene, el camino es bueno; si no lo tiene, no sirve para nada.

For the gods have very sharp ears for boasts, or for declarations of happiness and self-satisfaction, or for assertions of a firm intention to do this or that, or for statements that this or that must surely happen, or any other words hinting that a man is in the slightest control of his own destiny. And the gods are jealous, easily angered, perverse, and swift to thwart.

Suppose you applied this principle outside bridge? Suppose that coincidence and other chance happenings weren't really as chancy as they looked? Suppose there were individuals with a special aptitude for calling the turns, making the breaks? But that was a pretty obvious idea—nothing to give a person the shiver it had given him.