Quotes About Destiny

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Misfortune comes to all men.

There is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.

"The world is a wheel always turning," philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher."

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera, and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan, while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished, to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.