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Richard Bach

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to get rid of the life we???ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Homer

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

Friedrich von Schiller

Stern is the on-look of necessity, Not without shudder may a human hand Grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.

William Shakespeare

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

James Shirley

This is probably the source for: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

E. R. Bulwer-Lytton

'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Andr Malraux

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Andrew Schneider

The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.

Unknown

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.

Heraclitus

A man's character is his fate.

Brian Lindsay

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.

Euripides

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.

Billy

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.

Kim Hubbard

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Henry David Thoreau

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Jean Nidetch

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

James Shirley

This is probably the source for: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Aeschylus

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate.

French Proverb

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.

SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act ii, Sc. 9.

The ancient saying is no heresy;-- Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

Daniel Defoe

The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.

Albert Einstein

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Horace

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Albert Schweitzer

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Henry Miller

Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Edwin Markham

There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

Aldous Huxley

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

R.H. DANA: _Thoughts on the Soul._

It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate To shape the outward to its own estate.

Bill Wilson

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.

POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. i., Line 684.

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,-- The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.

Golda Meir

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Francois Mauriac

No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever.

Matrix, The

Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Tacitus

Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish -- even I (I say) if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It w

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.

Heloise

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

George Santayana

... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Friedrich von Schiller

Stern is the on-look of necessity, Not without shudder may a human hand Grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.

RICHARD CRASHAW: _Wishes to his Supposed Mistress._

Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye, In shady leaves of destiny.

Johann von Goethe

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

Norm Crosby

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Joseph Conrad

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Summer,_ Line 1285.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

"I don't believe in destiny or the guiding hand of fate.": Rush

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the o

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Anatomy is destiny.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

'Cause it's my destiny to be the King of Spain

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Immortality -- a fate worse than death.

"It's my destiny to be a smug, self-satisfied git?

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

'Cause I fell on black days. How would I know that this could be my fate? --Soundgarden

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny.

'Tis the fate of genius to be ever copied, and never attributed - arifel

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

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.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

"The Cave of Destiny, half a block south of Mort's Big And Tall"

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.