Fate Destiny Quotes - Page 2

• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Failure, Destiny, Tyrants

  Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (1967) p. 64

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• Character is fate. (Destiny).

  Heraclitus

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 190-92, In Mullach's Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum, 1922.

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• Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Work, Fate, Manifestation

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

  Appius Claudius Caecus

  Fate, Men, Architect

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• Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Fate

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

  William McFee

  Mean, Fighting, Fate

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• 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

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• [I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

  Soul, Captains, Fate And Destiny

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

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• I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Mean, Fate

  "Paulo Coelho: 'I had an enormous amount of fun being a hippy" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

  John F. Kennedy

  Destiny, Men, May

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• Control your fate or somebody else will

  Heinrich von Pierer

  Fate, Destiny, Fate And Destiny

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• Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Destiny, Oval

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• I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

  Bill Moyers

  Spiritual, Believe, Fate

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• There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

  Diana Trilling

  Fate, Destiny, Challenges

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• Love the people with whom fate brings you together

  Marcus Aurelius

  Valentines Day, Fate, Destiny

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• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Fall, Fate

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Fate

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Fate, Destiny

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  If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

  Amy Tan

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.47, Penguin

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