Destiny Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about destiny.

Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós

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Let each person follow their inclination, as inclinations are often lines or paths drawn by a very high finger, and no one, no matter how much they know, knows more than destiny.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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The destiny is like a person and stops bothering us if we show that we don't care about what it does to us.

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.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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A man is nothing but what he makes of himself.

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.