Quotes About Destiny

If it doesn't happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn't there to begin with.

This conceit went hand in glove with the investment bankers' belief that they could control their destiny, which, as we shall see, they couldn't.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. —Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

It was just eye-opening: to see how much your geography could determine the opportunities available to you.

Peter Parker—when

Or how his soldiers, even in combat, refused to wear their helmets, claiming that the weather was too hot for them and "if a bullet is going to kill me, it has my name on it anyway." (To which Amos said, "What about all those bullets addressed 'To Whom It May Concern'?")

I was a circumstance, Hannah, that's all. Good or bad - and I assure you that I remain extremely and appallingly bad - there are many angels because there were once many gods, pushing, pulling, hiding, guiding. Once we get through the fog and find a place that feels comfortable we look back and call their influence fate, and the destination our destiny. That's all.

Each life involves an essential errand; not simply the task of survival, but a life-mission embedded in the soul from the beginning.

We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.

Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good death is better than a poor one.

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

If we are the toys of the gods are not perhaps the gods themselves mere children?

Best believe our fates are our own, even if the evidence denies it.

And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

I think I was born to sail, and I mean that. So when I set off on my great sailing adventure, it was because I wanted to do it.

Do we eventually become what we are originally meant to be?

We all slept with Herodotus. "For those cities that were great in earlier times must have now become small, and those that were great in my time were small in the time before.… Man's good fortune never abides in the same place.

But what did we really know, even of one another? We never thought of a future. Our small solar system - what was it heading towards? And how long would each of us mean something to the others?

An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually, the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

When I think back on my childhood and the things that happened to me, there were certain periods of time where I felt like I was being saved for something. I feel like I have a gift, and it would be a sin to waste it.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.