Destiny Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about destiny.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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What will be, will be. I know that philosophy. They often call it predestination, fatalism, fate, but what it really means is that you will do as you damn well please, as always.

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.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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A man is nothing but what he makes of himself.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Every man has to invent his own path.

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

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Believe me, in your heart shines the star of your destiny.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Fate shuffles the cards, and we play them.

Svetlana Stalin

Svetlana Stalin

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I don't think one should lament about one's own destiny, but sometimes it's very tough.

Francisco Umbral

Francisco Umbral

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Fate, chance, and the gods do not usually send great envoys on white horses, nor in the czar's mail. Fate, in all its forms, always uses humble messengers.

Aeschylus of Eleusis

Aeschylus of Eleusis

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Not even sitting by the fire in his home can man escape the sentence of his destiny.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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The way a person takes control of their destiny is more determining than the destiny itself.