Quotes About Destiny

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Though men determine, the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.

The die is cast.

The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.

Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.

I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.