Quotes About Destiny

We will be going on, won't we?" "I suppose so. Somehow it seems like the right thing to do.

The high shelf Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm, Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.

We may not like the Jesus of the historical documents; but like him or not, we meet him there as a divine being on whom our personal destiny, both in time and in eternity, depends.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.

We are merely the star's tennis balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

Let all that do ill, take this precedent: Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. And of all axioms this shall win the prize, 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

God bends even our sins to his purpose.

There is a kind of crystallization in the circumstances of one's life. A peculiar turn of mind draws to itself events fitted to its particular nucleus, and it is frequently a subject of wonder why one man meets with more remarkable things than another, when it is owing merely to a difference of natural character.

all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery.

Hij begreep dat hij in die toekomst zou veranderen, maar hij zag de toekomst zelf als het instrument van verandering en niet als het doel ervan.

It was more nearly an instinct than knowledge, however, that made me understand that if it is one's destiny to change the world, it is his necessity first to change himself. If he is to obey his destiny, he must find or invent within himself some hard and secret part that is indifferent to himself, to others, and even to the world that he is destined to remake, not to his own desire, but to a nature that he will discover in the process of remaking.

Do they know that before us lies a road at the end of which is either death or greatness? The two words go around in my head, around and around, until it seems they are the same.

He is a man like any other… he will become what he will become, out of the force of his person and the accident of his fate.

Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.

we make our good luck or bad luck with our choices, actions and how we deal with the results.

Lucky for us Emily was not a man," said Julia, "or she might have drunk herself to death at the Black Bull. It was better to write Wuthering Heights, but she really had no choice.

Muttering something, Tant raised his hands to the sky as he walked beside me. I wasn't sure if it was a prayer or curse, but I distinctly heard "Why me?

There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

It isn't where you came frome; it's where you're going that counts.