Need Some Inspiring Quotes about Fate & Destiny?
Finding The Opportunity in Your Fate & Destiny
Before you begin to Discover Your Fate and identify what your fate and destiny are ... it is worth your time to get inspired by some great sayings and quotes about fate and destiny.
So, I offer these quotes as a beginning point ... may your sword be sharp and your aim accurate as you uncover what makes you unique and how your family, generation, and culture shape you and your future.
And if you need more inspiration, I have more quotes about fate, inspiring movies about fate, and even more destiny quotes.
Fate Quotes
These quotes by famous and great people speak about how fate works and what to do with yours. Knowing what your birth circumstances and your culture and family have in store for you can help you know if you want to realize your potential and go after your destiny.
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.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
- Voltaire
Men are not prisoners of Fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence.
- Ronald Harmon
Critical Tasks
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie
Challenges
To keep our faces (key 18/19) toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
- Helen Keller
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
– Euripides
Movie Quotes
My friend, there is a fine line between coincidence and fate.
- The Mummy 2 (movie)
Sometimes you really can't listen to what anybody else says – you just gotta listen insides. Your not supposed to end up in those mines. You know why? Because YOU made other plans.
- October Sky (movie quote)
Please, please ... please. Let fate take its prop.er (key 14) course.
- Serendipity (movie quote)
When that $5 bill makes its way back into my hands, I'll be able to call you. And when you hear my voice on the other end, then you'll believe in fate. {notice Thomas Travel and the school of fish ...}
- Serendipity (movie quotes)
Destiny Quotes
I set much store by destiny ... and encourage everyone to learn what their potential is and make an informed decisions about whether to follow their fate or destiny. Read more destiny quotes ...
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and it important in some respect whether he chooses to be or not.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.
- William Jennings Bryan
You are the master of your own destiny. Use your strengths well. They are the keys to your destiny and your success in life. Once you know yourself and take action to realize your dreams, you can unlock the doors to your own potential.
- Neil Somerville
Book: Chinese Success Signs
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
- French Proverb
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 reach your destiny.
You are what your deep driving desire is;
As your deep driving desire is, so is your will;
As your will is so is your deed;
As your deed is so is your destiny.- Maitri Upanishads
Sow a thought and you reap an act;
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Critical Tasks of Destiny
Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
- Wanda Carter
Find the thread of your life and follow it.
- Manifest Your Potential.com
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
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
Sow a thought and you reap an act;
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Finding a Guide
Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world ...
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it ...
Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be.- Song Lyrics "Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall
Challenges of Destiny
As long as we are persistent 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.
The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
- Norman Cousins
The Body will again become restless
Until your soul paints all its beauty
Upon the Sky ...
For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny
And you awake ...
- Hafiz
