As individuals, we see destiny as a part of our existence. We don’t exactly know what our destiny is or what destiny would bring us, but we believe that we are destined for something. And as we try to figure out what we are destined to be or what we are destined to do, here are 150 destiny quotes to read and think about.
Destiny Quotes
1. Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. – Paul Tillich
2. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare
3. You shape your own destiny. – Chet Atkins
4. And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. – Andre Malraux
5. 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
6. Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7. Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. – Joseph Heller
8. Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. – Dag Hammarskjold
9. Every people should be originators of their own destiny. – Martin Delany
10. The destiny of man is in his own soul. – Herodotus
11. Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12. Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can’t have any regrets. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
13. Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. – Henri Frederic Amiel
14. Destiny is real. And she’s not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you’re naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn’t know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it’s the most beautiful thing. – C. JoyBell C.
15. I can control my destiny; I control my life. – Shahid Khan
16. Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. – Henry Miller
17. Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist. – Andrea Bocelli
18. The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny. – James Woods
19. Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny. – David O. McKay
20. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Tony Robbins
21. Once you make the decision to move on, don’t look back. Your destiny will never be found in the rear view mirror. – Mandy Hale
22. Every passion has its destiny. – Billy Mills
23. Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. – Bob Marley
24. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. – Michel Faber
25. If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. – William Irwin Thompson
26. Sometimes things happen to us that we just don’t understand. These things sometimes become the doors and windows to our destiny. – Andrea Nugent
27. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine
28. Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C. S. Lewis
29. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. – Ursula K. Le Guin
30. I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be. – Robin Williams
31. No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. – Agnes de Mille
32. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
33. In the search for your destiny, you will often find yourself obliged to change direction. – Paulo Coelho
34. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu
35. Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. – Kin Hubbard
36. There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be… – John Lennon
37. Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? – Garth Nix
38. What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. – Anais Nin
39. There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. – Nicholas Sparks
40. Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. – J.K. Rowling
41. What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? – Jim Butcher
42. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey. – John O’Donohue
43. […] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of ‘psst’ that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in such a rush to or from something important you’ve tried to engineer. – David Foster Wallace
44. You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. – Philip Pullman
45. DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you’re about WILL COME TRUE. It’s a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it’s a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It’s best to keep that all inside. – Bob Dylan
46. I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer
47. I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. – Jeanette Winterson
48. Decisions Determine Destiny – Thomas S. Monson
49. I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us. – Morgan Rhodes
50. You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your own destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs? – Libba Bray
51. Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny. – Gayle Forman
52. Character is destiny. – Heraclitus
53. It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. – Jean Nidetch
54. We were each other’s rock. But did it make us each other’s destiny? – Rachel Hawthorne
55. Have all beautiful things sad destinies? – Jean Rhys
56. A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man’s destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone. – Cormac McCarthy
57. The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them. – Seneca
58. Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. – Darren Shan
59. What if destiny doesn’t care? – Scott Westerfeld
60. Your will shall decide your destiny. – Charlotte Brontë
61. I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite. – Hermann Hesse
62. From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette. – Cesare Pavese
63. No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
64. We ought to face our destiny with courage. – Friedrich Nietzsche
65. That’s the thing about destiny: It can’t be predicted, and it’s usually pretty odd. – Jasper Fforde
66. Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun. – Sarah Holman
67. Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. – Rainer Maria Rilke
68. Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT. – Pablo
69. The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny. – Alyson Noel
70. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand. – George Eliot
71. Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I’d thank Him for Lending me you….. – Flavia Weedn
72. The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices. – Clarice Lispector
73. Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest. – Marshall Masters
74. We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose. – Rafael Sabatini
75. It is said some lives are linked across time. Connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages. Destiny. – Prince of Persia 1
76. Our choices determine our destiny. – A.R. Bernard
77. I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it. – Leo F. Buscaglia
78. Demographics is destiny. – Arthur Kemp
79. Our destiny is aligned with our heart’s innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique pattern or configuration reminiscent of the constellations in the night sky. When we express (press out) our unique configuration, it shines through us with an otherworldly luminosity, manifesting abundance in our lives and the lives of others. Our sole task is to yoke our inner destiny, thread it through our lives and weave it into the world. All else is just shadows and dust. – Thea Euryphaessa
80. I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness. – Isak Dinesen
81. You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own. – Mark Victor Hansen
82. 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
83. I’ve had a blessed life. I’ve pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don’t know what’ll happen tomorrow. – Cilla Black
84. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill
85. Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be. – Joel Osteen
86. We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
87. Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean. – Lynda Resnick
88. I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me. – Pranab Mukherjee
89. Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance. – Stan Lee
90. Everything happens for a reason. I’m used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family. – Shaquille O’Neal
91. The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte
92. Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny! – Stephen Curry
93. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny. – Carl Sandburg
94. In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. – Linus Torvalds
95. If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny. – Rollo May
96. There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. – Friedrich Schiller
97. I’m a great believer in geography being destiny. – Abraham Verghese
98. I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds. – Angelina Jolie
99. We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves. – Rita Hayworth
100. Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place. – Brian Weiss
101. I believe in destiny, God’s hand and hard work. – Katrina Kaif
102. Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. – Mahatma Gandhi
103. I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to. – Tom Ford
104. I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn’t happen, it was for a reason. – Didier Drogba
105. Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways. – Joyce Meyer
106. There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham
107. Your genetics is not your destiny. – George M. Church
108. How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny? – Ferdowsi
109. Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We’re set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny. – Forest Whitaker
110. What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. – Samuel Beckett
111. Destiny is not one push, she thought as she waited to cross a quiet street on that cold Paris evening years later, but a thousand small moments that through insight and hard work you line up in the right direction, like the magnet does the metal shavings. – Robert M. Edsel
112. A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. – Haruki Murakami
113. No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny. – Takayuki Yamaguchi
114. Decision decides destiny. What God wants you to become is the positive person you decide to become when led by God’s spirit. – Israelmore Ayivor
115. Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can’t give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I’ve come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it. – Lois McMaster Bujold
116. Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live. – Annie Dillard
117. We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny. – Sorin Cerin
118. It’s up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you. – Amit Abraham
119. We can’t control our destiny. We can’t go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment by setting a goal and pursuing it for a better life with a greater purpose. – Ellen J. Barrier
120. Destiny doesn’t always come when it’s convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you’re ready, whether you know it or not. – Kelly Thompson
121. Destiny lies before, should we choose to pursue it. – Paul Klobusicky
122. Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give. – Jennifer Haigh
123. That’s the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life? – David Baddiel
124. Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen.. – T.S. Eliot
125. Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist? – Edith Pearlman
126. Our destinies depend on the choices we make. Be it wise or stupid. – Paul Nat
127. Make your destiny before your destiny makes you… – Kuldeep Kandasi
128. Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it. – Nick Joaquín
129. Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. – Kenneth Patchen
130. What is destiny? It’s simply the path of tomorrow. What is tomorrow? It’s simply the projection of today. And your action today is the only force that forges the destiny of not just your own, but indeed of your society, for your life is not separate from your society. – Abhijit Naskar
131. Destiny is not a straightaway. It’s cluttered with corners and all of them are dark. We make the turns we do…and find ourselves where we are. – J.R. Ward
132. Destiny suggests that the effect of our life is to exceed the length of our life. Therefore, today never ends with today. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
133. My destiny hangs on every step and with every step I change my destiny. – Marty Rubin
134. There are so many dreams to be fulfilled, but Ultima says a man’s destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sun and the earth and water making it blossom, and no one else meddling in it. – Rudolfo Anaya
135. I don’t understand why destiny allowed some people to meet, when there’s no way for them to be together. – Nitya Prakash
136. Destiny is a pretty story we tell ourselves. Lurking beneath it there are only people, and the terrible choices we make. – Alix E. Harrow
137. Destiny is not written until you accept things to happen. – Giridhar Alwar
138. History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny. – Ernst Jünger
139. Your character defines your destiny! – Prophetess Dina Rolle
140. As water runs its course so to does man have to follow the stars to find his true destiny. – Anthony T. Hincks
141. If you want to outrun your Destiny, first choose a different road to run on. – Foster Kinn
142. Every sacrifice has a degree. The greater your destiny, the higher the degree of sacrifice. – Naide P Obiang
143. You can either continue on the path of your destiny, as you have been living it up to now, or you can completely change the course of it by deciding that you want it to be different starting now. – Ora Nadrich
144. You dad gives what you desire, but destiny gives what you deserve. – Amit Kalantri
145. Sometimes suffering is the sacrifice you have to make to achieve greatness, success and your destiny. – Jeanette Coron
146. The more you follow others the further you will walk from your own destiny. Follow your own star and illumine the world in your own way. – Apoorve Dubey
147. I like to be in charge of my destiny. – Sarah Mlynowski
148. Destiny is the agency to set a sight on a higher goal, than anyone else can see. – For-you-she-writes
149. Destiny needs to be believed in for it to come true. – Nisha Sharma
150. There’s an aristocracy in the whims of destiny. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz