Famous Destiny Quotes

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
-- William Shakespeare

All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
-- Homer

And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.
-- Paul Acquasanta

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

Character is fate.
-- Heraclitus Of Ephesus

Destiny is no 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.
-- William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is no 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.
-- William Jennings Bryan

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
-- Wendell Phillips

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
-- Albert Einstein

Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out.
-- Michael Garrett Marino

For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
-- Lord Byron

For rarely man escapes his destiny.
-- Ludovico Ariosto

Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.
-- William Shakespeare

I feel that I am a man of destiny.
-- Johann Christoph Von Schiller

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.
-- Carl Schurz

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
-- Yiddish Proverb

Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
-- William Shakespeare

In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.
-- Robert Levine