Quotes About Destiny

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

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

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

My future is one I must make myself.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin.