Destiny
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Bierce, Ambrose
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
- Bowen, Elizabeth
Destiny is not a 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.
- Bryan, William Jennings
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Camus, Albert
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- Chesterton, G.K.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven.
- Confucius
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It matters not how straight the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.
- Henley, William E.
There's someone out there for everyone-even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them. (L.A. Story)
- Martin, Steve
But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?
- Pope, Alexander
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
- Popper, Karl
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
- Seneca
Men at some time are masters of their fates:<
- Shakespeare, William
There is no armor against fate;<
- Shirley, James
Immortality--a fate worse than death.
- Shoaff, Edgar A.
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
- Syrus, Publilius
The road goes ever on and on down fromthe door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say.
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
