Destiny Quotes

2702 Destiny quotes by 1514 unique authors

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes. — Aristotle
Things have a way of turning out so badly. — Tennessee Williams
But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live. — William Shakespeare
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… — Ronald Reagan
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. — William Shakespeare
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. — Seneca the Younger
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. — Seneca the Younger
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in… — Joseph Addison
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him. — Henry Ward Beecher
We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas… — Thomas Jefferson
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names. — Horace
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be… — Paul Tillich
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. — James A. Baldwin
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… — Boethius
All art is a revolt against man's fate. — Andre Malraux
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as… — Thomas Szasz
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Fate is nonawareness. — Jan Kott
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Fate is a great accident. — Unknown Author
Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into. — Wyatt Earp

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