Swami Chinmayananda on Fate / Destiny
If humanity is not to grow sufficiently strong to become a master of the machines that it makes, the present civilization of slavery to iron wheels pounding to the rhythm of lust shall stand, indeed, condemned. But in case we can grow into a self-mastery in ourselves, sufficient to rule over the forces of nature that we have released, certainly we shall preserve our secular endowments and come to live served by them as a Sultan of Destiny.
William Shakespeare on Fate / Destiny
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
George Gordon Byron on Fate / Destiny
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Joseph Conrad on Fate / Destiny
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Kin Hubbard on Fate / Destiny
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
William Shakespeare on Fate / Destiny
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Oscar Wilde on Fate / Destiny
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
William Jennings Bryan on Fate / Destiny
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.
Henry Miller on Fate / Destiny
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.