Destiny Quotes and Sayings

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Ta

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Edward Fitzgerald

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it.
Leo F. Buscaglia

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

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

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you; but one thing I know - the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

The past is like a river flowing out of sight; the future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight.
Anna Hoxie

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Waverley Lewis Root

Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny To hang or wed: both hath one hour; And whether it be, I am well sure, Hanging is better of the twain; Sooner done, and shorter pain.
Anonymous

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel Castro

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

One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Anthony Robbins

It’s our destiny to explore. It’s our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
Eugene Cernan

Who can control his fate?
William Shakespeare

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle

If you don’t make things happen, things will happen to you.
Lanes Company

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
Henry Hancock

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes