-Orison Swett Marden-

“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”

-Neil Somerville-

“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 of your own potential.”

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes-

“I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be – that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.”

-Carl Schurz-

“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.”

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-Eleanor Roosevelt-

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

-Shakespeare-

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

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

-Seneca-

“Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

-Virgil-

“Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.”

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau (contrast with Buddha this, that intercessions)

-Orison Swett Marden-

“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.”

-Marcel Marceau-

“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.”

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 of your own potential.

Neil Somerville (Chinese Success Signs)

-Maitri Upanishads-

“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.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

“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.”

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.

Carl Schurz

-Eileen Caddy-

“A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.”

-French Proverb-

“One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.”

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.

Denis Waitley

-Les (Lester Louis) Brown-

“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.”

-Wanda Carter-

“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.”

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.

Les (Lester Louis) Brown

-Eileen Caddy-

“A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.”

-Jack Welch-

“Control your destiny or somebody else will.”

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.

Denis Waitley

-Beverly Sills-

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”

-Anthony Robbins-

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

Alessandro Baricco, Book: Silk

-Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt-

“How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”

-Sir Karl Popper-

“We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.”

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

-Aristotle-

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

-Albert Einstein-

“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.

Henry David Thoreau

-Alessandro Baricco, Book: Silk-

“Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.”

-Alessandro Baricco, Book: Silk -

“As eight years before, he was leaving … to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.”

Find the thread of your life and follow it.

Manifest Your Potential.com

-Last Samarai (movie quote)-

“Do you think a man can change his destiny? I think a man does what he can until his destiny is revealed to him.”

-Serendipity (movie)-

“When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.”

Destiny. I've got her now …

Real Genius (movie quote)

-Serendipity (movie quote)-

“Hey, what about me? We have to send something out into the Universe with your name on it, don’t we? Come on … isn’t that the only fair thing?”

-Serendipity (movie)-

“When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.”

This is just wrong. You don't have the most INCREDIBLE night of your life with a PERFECT stranger and then leave it all 2 chance, do U?

Serendipity (movie quote)

-Serendipity (movie)-

“Your my hero. You’re out there, man, making it happen.”

-The Princess Diaries (movie)-

“Let the work begin.”

When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.

Serendipity (movie)

-Earthsea (TV movie quote)-

“so this is our destiny? If not us, then who?”

-Kin Hubbard-

“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”

Now you listen to me. We all have a destiny. Nothing just happens. Its all part of a plan ... I should have died out there with my men ....

Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump (movie)

-Jawaharlal Nehru-

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

-William McFee-

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

That's life — whichever way you turn, fate sticks out its foot to trip you.

Martin Goldsmith & Martin Mooney,Detour, 1945, spoken by the character Al Roberts

-Diana Trilling-

“There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.”

-Author Unknown-

“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

-Henry Ward Beecher-

“A door that seems to stand open must be a man’s size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.”

-Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com-

“The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.”

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

Jean de La Fontaine

-Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton-

“Fate laughs at probabilities.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche-

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate,” which is in fact your life.”

They... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

-Marcus Aurelius-

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

-Terri Guillemets-

“Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap.”

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn, 1949

-Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com-

“Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.”

-Terri Guillemets-

“Destiny = our free will + God’s free will.”

There is an unseen life that dreams us. It knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize and we need have no fear of change.

John O’Donohue

-Philip Pullman-

“We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.”

-Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com-

“Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.”

Whose madness was a challenge hurled at fate...

-James Russell Lowell-

“Fate loves the fearless.”

-Ursula K. Le Guin-

“A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.”

If you do not do what you are supposed to do in life, the universe will do it for you.

-P.G. Wodehouse-

“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”

-Terri Guillemets-

“You are fate’s shadow or fate’s sun, depending on which way you turn.”

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Lucan

-John Galsworthy-

“Life calls the tune, we dance.”

-Carl Jung-

“When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

-Ludwig van Beethoven-

“I shall seize fate by the throat.”

-Terri Guillemets-

“The fire of destiny won’t warm you until you get there.”

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.

Théophile Gautier, c.1845, translated from French