quotations about destiny
A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Kismet"
Long tarries destiny,
But comes to those who pray.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Pourers
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence.
C. F. KETTERING
Prophet of Progress
A girl with a good figure can often shape her own destiny.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Not without a shudder may the human hand grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The Death of Wallenstein
The thing about destiny is that it can so nearly not happen and, even when it does, rarely looks like what it is.
GEOFF DYER
Jeff in Venice
Destiny is a journey. Therefore, it is essential for anyone who wants to reach his or her planned destination to stay on course. Detouring can cause a trip that is only meant to take a day turn into a trip that takes weeks... The only way you can travel into your destiny is to release yourself of other routes that cause lengthy detours, taking you back to the beginning and sometimes to dead end streets.
KRISTI LUV WILSON
Driving Destiny
The soul of man createth its own destiny.
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS
"Extract"
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
attributed, Rocket Men
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Peace
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
CESARE PAVESE
The Devil in the Hills
Destiny can never be cast away by you because it is you.
SORIN CERIN
Wisdom Collection
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
speech in the House of Commons, Feb. 27, 1945
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
AESCHYLUS
The Oresteia
Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
To be always on the move, learning, discovering, unfolding, is your eternal destiny. Living is life's only purpose... To live without self-concern.
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
I Am That
An unjust destiny is at variance with the will of the Almighty; a just destiny is merely the expression of his will: in no case is there room for destiny outside and above the deity. There is therefore no destiny apart from the will of God. By obedience to that will man may escape from evil, by opposing it he may bring evil on himself and his descendants.
EVELYN ABBOT
Hellenica
Realizing a destiny is not a matter of acquiescing in some form of relentless causality. If it were, there would be no sin. A destiny can be failed or refused. That is why it is not a fate. True, the very word "destiny" is indicative of necessity, but the necessity of a destiny is not like the necessity that makes an object fall when it is dropped. Rather, it is the kind I recognize when I face a duty I am tempted to evade and say to myself, "This I must do."
GREGORY WOLFE
The New Religious Humanists
The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
JAN PATOCKA
attributed, In Pursuit of Destiny
There can be no exit from manifest destiny.
MICK FARREN
Darklost