Quotes About Destiny

The Lord lends us a body, gives us an assignment, and sends us down. When we get the job done, the Lord calls us home again for the next assignment.

Nothing is born which Death makes not subject of his state.

Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.

Our mind is but a lump of clay That Fate, grim potter, holds On sorrow's wheel that rolls away, And, as he pleases, moulds.

It imprisons Brahm? in the universe like a potter in his own giant urn. It tosses Vishnu into the dark tangle of his ten avatars. Rudra it forces to beg roaming with a skull in his cupped palms, and it makes S?rya circle the sky endlessly. I bow my head to karma.

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

Beings are the owners of their actions, the heirs of their actions; they spring from their actions, are bound to their actions, and are supported by their actions. Whatever deeds they do, good or bad, of those they shall be heirs.

Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.

Great riches come to many men by chance.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.

Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.

Some people save the world and some make up the numbers. But then Thorns stumbled along.

See, it's all about Fate. Fate that I'm going to be a dead kid. Fate that you got tangled up with me. We're both stuck and all we can do is make the best of it.

To become a man, you must be propelled by a mission. To become heroic, you must be fueled by a quest.

God does not call the qualified, but qualifies the called.

But if pressed, I'd have to say that what I love most about the subways of New York is what they do not do. One may spend a lifetime looking back—whether regretfully or wistfully, with shame or fondness or sorrow—and thinking how, given the chance, things might have been done differently. But when you enter a subway car and the doors close, you have no choice but to give yourself over to where it is headed. The subway only goes one way: forward.

Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.

The choices you make create your future.

Your choices are where your future begins.

What God has planned for the Church in this hour is greater than our ability to imagine and pray.

When I feel fear, I know that the enemy is present, trying to keep me from stepping into my destiny in that moment.

When we know who He made us to be, we'll never want to be anyone else. He has wrapped up His significance in the destiny of every person He called to Himself for salvation