quotations about destiny
Destiny isn't a matter of chance, but of choice, and what you choose to accept will eventually become yours.
KATIA WINTER
"The Sin Eater", Sleepy Hollow
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Triumph and Tragedy
No one can live for me
No one can see the things I see
I walk this road
No one can tell me how to be
It's my destiny
LENNY KRAVITZ
"Destiny", Baptism/Lenny
Thou knowest not what destiny awaits thee. It is time thou shouldst learn to know thyself.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The Misanthrope
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Youth is often a scoffer at destiny.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Destiny is not the same as fate. The word refers not to anything terrible or even to anything inevitable, in the usual sense of the word, but to the temporal and free unfolding of a person's essential being. A destiny is a spiritual drama.
GREGORY WOLFE
The New Religious Humanists
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
attributed, In Pursuit of Destiny
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
AMBROSE BIERCE
attributed, Everlasting Wisdom
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
WOODROW WILSON
speech, Apr. 6, 1912
The stage is set
The cards have been dealt
He is now no more than a puppet
In the shadow of his own destiny
DJ SHADOW
"DJ Shadow's Theme"
Even though it is divinely ordained, the musical score of your unfolding destiny is not necessarily easy to hear.
PAUL O'BRIEN
Divination: Sacred Tools for Reading the Mind of God
Often the steps we take to avoid destiny lead us to it.
JONATHAN AIBEL & GLENN BERGER
Kung Fu Panda
Destiny is the essence of worldly powers.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Destiny waits in the hands of God, shaping the still unshapen.
T. S. ELIOT
Murder in the Cathedral
It is man's destiny, I think, to go forward, ever forward. We are of the breed, you and I, the breed who venture always toward what lies out there -- westward, onward, everward.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
The Warrior's Path
Well, destiny is dead
In the hands of bad luck
GREEN DAY
"Stuart and the Ave.", Insomniac
Break this bittersweet spell on me
Lost in the arms of destiny bittersweet
I won't give up, I'm possessed by her
I'm bearing a cross she's turned into my curse
APOCALYPTICA
"Heat", Reflections
We cannot always explain our destiny by referring to our moral worth; we may be cursed and blessed without justice behind either. Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.
SENECA
attributed, Consolations of Philosophy
Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.
LEONID ANDREYEV
The Life of Man