Quotes About Destiny

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.

I don't think I know better than what the cosmos has in store for me.

God truly had a better plan for me than I had imagined. You never know what life has in store.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.