Meaningful Quotes about Destiny

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. - Aristotle

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. - Dante, Italian poet

Character is destiny. - Heraclitus, Ancient Greek Philosopher

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. - George Washington, US President

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. - William Shakespeare

We must always take risks. That is our destiny. - T.S. Eliot, British Poet

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher

One cannot evade destiny. - Ancient Greek proverb

Love that only which happens to you and is spun with the thread of your destiny. For what is more suitable? - Marcu Aurelius, Roman emperor

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. - Andre Maurois, French writer

Man is master of his destiny and his destiny is the earth, and he himself is destroying it until he runs out of destiny. - Frida Kahlo, Artist

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. - African proverb from Ghana

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship. - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer

If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. - Jules Verne, writer: From “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. - Homer, from the Iliad

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. - Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. - Albert Einstein

I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced. - Albret Einstein

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." ~ Jean de La Fontaine

"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

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