DESTINY QUOTES
quotations about destiny
There's a divinity which shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
For Destiny never swerves
Nor yields to men the helm.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The World-Soul
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
The Secret Doctrine
Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Radiance
A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Headed for eternity and destined for nothing
The future isn't difficult to see
It's easy to confuse grand design with life's repercussions
Lament not your vanquished fantasy
It's only destiny
BAD RELIGION
"Destined for Nothing", The Process of Belief
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Mrs. George William Fairfax, Sep. 12, 1758
Change your perception and you change your destiny.
TAKUDZWA MASH
Wisdom Quotes
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Natural History of Intellect
Anguish may crush us, life fail us--still let your soul and conscience rule supreme, and, dying, give the lie to soulless destiny, that dares to boast itself man's master.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
KIN HUBBARD
InfoWorld, Dec. 28, 1998
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny.
HAN SOLO
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
ERIC BERNE
What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES
attributed, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.
NAOMI JUDD
Naomi's Breakthrough Guide
Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.
GAI EATON
Islam and the Destiny of Man
We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding.
DAVID RICHO
The Power of Coincidence
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.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
A destiny is not a fate. It is not forced upon us, and someone who is intensely fearful and stubborn may even be able to evade it. But neither is a destiny merely a desired or ideal end. It is that for which we were born, and evading it would entail, not deprivation of this or that particular good, but loss of self, or soul.
GLENN E. TINDER
preface, The Fabric of Hope