Destiny Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about destiny.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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To fight against our destiny would be a struggle like that of the sheaf of ears of corn wanting to resist the sickle.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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What the heavens have ordained to happen, no human diligence or wisdom can prevent it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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It has always been believed that there is something called destiny, but it has also always been believed that there is another thing called free will. What qualifies a man is the balance of that contradiction.

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

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The wise man believes in destiny; the fickle one in chance.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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We were making our plans, but we forgot that destiny also has plans.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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What is considered blindness of fate is actually one's own myopia.

Friedrich Hebbel

Friedrich Hebbel

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We must act, not to go against destiny, but to go ahead of it.

Having raised the wall against the will of the immortal gods, it was not meant to stand for a long time.

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, are either flourishing and vigorous as they eat the fruits of the earth, or become lifeless and die.

Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

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We often find our destiny on the paths we take to avoid it.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Destiny does not reign without the secret complicity of instinct and will.