Quotes About Destiny

Esti stapanul destinului tau, prin puterea pe care o ai de a-ti controla gandurile.

You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's Divine nature. This Divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may control your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL, BECAUSE… When Henley wrote the prophetic lines, I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul, he should have informed us that we are the Masters of our Fate, the Captains of our Souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

I am master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician.

Little did he dream, when he went to work, that he was destined to bring hope and practical relief to thousands of deafened people who, without his help, would have been doomed forever to deaf mutism.

Happiness is always just around the bend; always in sight but just out of reach.

Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

The only article Lady Fortuna has no control over is your behavior. Good luck.

Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.

So let us call here the teleological fallacy the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going.

cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

You feel less guilty for not having avoided certain events; you feel less responsible for it. Things appear as if they were bound to happen.

There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.

Just as those who live by the sword die by the sword, those who earn their living taking risks will lose their livelihood taking risks.

Nobody accepts randomness in his own success, only in his failure.

otherwise the odds would be too low to get here just by luck.

he who does not have a past has no future.6

that which came with the help of luck could be taken away by luck (and often rapidly and unexpectedly at that). The flipside, which deserves to be considered as well (in fact it is even more of our concern), is that things that come with little help from luck are more resistant to randomness.

Mae Tuck must never go to the gallows. Whatever happened to the man in the yellow suit, Mae Tuck must not be hanged. Because if all they had said was true, then Mae, even if she were the cruelest of murderers and deserved to be put to death--Mae Tuck would not be able to die.

Self-concept is destiny. Or, more precisely, it tends to be.

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.