Quotes About Destiny

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

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

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Each man's character shapes his fortunes.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Every man must get to heaven his own way.