Destiny Quotes

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts. You may influence, direct, and eventually control your own environment, making your life what you want it to be.

Was a struggle to choose one’s own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

If what matters in a person’s existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one’s external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him, and I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Destiny is everything.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.