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Quotes About Destiny

Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.
~ Pauline Kael
You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.
~ Paulo Coelho
Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes the story takes you to places that you want to go and sometimes it takes you places you don't want to go.
~ Peter Gould
The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?
~ Oprah Winfrey
Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?
~ Rachel Vincent
And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.
~ Stonewall Jackson
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
~ Nostradamus
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
~ Clement Attlee
Every bullet has its billet.
~ William III of England
Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
~ Emilie Schindler
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
~ Oscar Wilde
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
~ Pope Paul VI
That man made me miss my destiny.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.
~ Stephen Crane
You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?
~ Jim James
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.
~ Jose Bergamin
You hold in your hands the future of the world.
~ Raymond Poincare
In war, important events result from trivial causes.
~ Julius Caesar
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
~ Charlotte Bronte
We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
~ John F. Kennedy
The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.
~ Homer
Here's the life lesson I've learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the bad guy. Fighting your destiny only makes life harder than it needs to be. Besides, people remember the villain long after they've forgotten the hero.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips