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Quotes About Fate

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
~ Henry Miller
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.
~ Richard Hovey
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
~ Diana Trilling
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
~ Unknown
Control your fate or somebody else will
~ Heinrich von Pierer
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.
~ Fernando Pessoa
How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
~ Etty Hillesum
We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
~ Nora Roberts
Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.
~ Russell M. Nelson
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.
~ Anne Frank
We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.
~ John Hagelin
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Fate keeps on happening.
~ Anita Loos
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
~ Aldous Huxley
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
~ Jim Butcher, White Night
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
~ George Santayana
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
~ Danielle Steel
So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.
~ Al Goldstein