Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman
What happens to a person is determined by their fate. — Turkish Proverbs
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds. — Lisa Kleypas
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected. — Plutarch
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. — Zeno of Citium
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. — Citium Zeno
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. — Plutarch
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca The Elder
Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate. — Vyasa
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag. — Seneca
Short Fate And Destiny Quotes
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them. — Seneca
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting — Gregory David Roberts
A man's character is his fate. — Heraclitus
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. — Linall Jr. A. L.
Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you — Myles Munroe
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — J. K. Rowling
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. — Duke Ellington
The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Fate And Destiny Image Quotes
Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate. — Bill Paxton
Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.
I Believe In Fate And Destiny Quotes
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. — Buddha
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. — Henry Rollins
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. — Ronald Reagan
What's meant to be will always find its way. Always.
I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. — Bill Moyers
I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to. — Tom Ford
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony. — Gene Wilder
Life And Destiny Quotes
Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. — Liam James
My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi
Why fit in when you we born to stand out?
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. — Rosa Luxemburg
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. — Napoleon Bonaparte
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. — Princess Diana
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. — Lawrence Block
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny. — William E. Gladstone
Believe In Destiny Quotes
You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish. — Joel Osteen
I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them. — Zac Efron
I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. — Priyanka Chopra
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view. — Michael York
Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai. — Dhirubhai Ambani
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny — Sam Shepard
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. — Benjamin Disraeli
We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic. — Lyndon B. Johnson
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. — James A. Baldwin
I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn. — Sam Snead
Your Destiny Quotes
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Lao Tzu
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny. — T. D. Jakes
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. — Marcus Garvey
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. — T. D. Jakes
You need to associate with people who inspire you,
people that challenge you to raise higher,
people that make you better.
Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth.
Your destiny is too important. — Joel Osteen
Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak. — Attila the Hun
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. — Albert Ellis
By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth! — Paula White
Destiny And Choice Quotes
To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history. — Christine Caine
Our genes are not our destiny, they are influenced by our environment and lifestyle choices. — Rhonda Patrick
God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free. — J.P. Moreland
True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny. — D. Todd Christofferson
No other road, no other way, No day but today! — Jonathan Larson
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. — Benjamin Disraeli
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece. — Regina Brett
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. — Gloria Naylor
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man — John F. Kennedy
Love Destiny Quotes
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. — Thomas Merton
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. — Carl Schurz
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. — Quentin Crisp
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. — Princess Diana
The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love. — Leonardo Boff
I don't know how I ever lived before
You are my life, my destiny
Oh my darling, I love you so
You mean everything to me — Neil Sedaka
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. — Alice Sebold
My Destiny Quotes
And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny — Lauryn Hill
I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day. — Paul Kagame
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other. — Yunus Emre
Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. — Richard Bach
I need you to rescue me from my destiny, I'm tryna live right and give you whatevers left of me. — Drake
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. — Islom Karimov
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. — Marcel Marceau
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. — Robert Breault
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do. — Abraham Maslow
For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history. — Derek Walcott
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars. — Andrew Marvell
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. — Fannie Flagg
Love is not in our choice but in our fate. — John Dryden
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate. — Christopher Marlowe
Love cannot save you from your own fate. — Jim Morrison
Destiny Quotes
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. — William Shakespeare
I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better. — T. D. Jakes
Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch. — Peter The Great
A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. — Bhagat Singh
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. — Huey Newton
Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg! — Chris Oyakhilome
You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history. — T. D. Jakes
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it. — George S. Patton
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny. — William McKinley
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen. — Ann Rule
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. — Diana Trilling
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. — William Mcfee
Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp. — Ethan Gilsdorf
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars. — Anais Nin
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered. — Boethius
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life. — Helen Van Slyke
Love the people with whom fate brings you together — Marcus Aurelius
The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold. — Denzel Washington
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. — Appius Claudius Caecus
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller
Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings. — Charles W. Chesnutt
It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny. — Joel Osteen
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined. — Seneca
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. — Steven Spielberg
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. — Karl Popper
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice — Carl Jung
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. — Carl Jung
Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working. — John C. Maxwell
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. — Victor Hugo
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power. — Lewis Cass
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. — Harry S. Truman
As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. — Denis Waitley
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. — Hermann Hesse
All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man. — Maxim Gorky
Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord — Theodore Roosevelt
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