Quotes About Destiny

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

Put aside the need to know some future design and simply leave your life open to what is needed of it by the Divine forces.

The future is a great land.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.

Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.