Fate Destiny Quotes

• Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, God

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• The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Birthday, Character

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  Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Greatness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868). “Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.28

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Ambition

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2038, e-artnow

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

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Destiny, Funny Work

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Destiny, Eagles

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

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• As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Change, Determination

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1615, e-artnow

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• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, Soul, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fate, Destiny, Complaining

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• Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Silly, Fate, Would Be

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

  Daniel Handler

  I Hate You, Humor, Fate

  "The Slippery Slope". Book by Daniel Handler, 2003.

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• Into each life some rain must fall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Rain, Fall

  "The Rainy Day" st. 3 (1842)

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Spring, Destiny

  Early Dramas The Death of Wallenstein Act II, Scene III

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• Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

  Plutarch

  Fate, Destiny, Drag

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• 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.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Wise, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fate, Decay

  'MacFlecknoe' (1682) l. 1

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

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