Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.
May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
Fred Young in Blow
17'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight
Magic: The Gathering () - Pendrell Drake
6Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Morpheus in The Matrix
6Destiny is for losers. It's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.
No young man, no matter how great, can know his destiny. He cannot glimpse his part in the great story that is about to unfold. Like everyone, he must live and learn. And so it shall be for the young warlock arriving at the gates of Camelot. A boy that will in time father a legend. His name... Merlin.
The Great Dragon in Merlin - The new Adventures - Season 1 Episode 5
4Fate is not like the cut of a blade, young one, but rather like the myriad of paths formed when a hammer cracks ice.
Oracle in King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
4Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."
If it is meant for you, you won't have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.
Destinies are troublesome things. You feel trapped? Like your whole life has been planned out for you and you've got no control over anything and sometimes you don't even know if what destiny has decided is really the best thing at all.
Merlin in Merlin - The new Adventures - Season 3 Episode 5
3Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?
Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 24
2We can't change what fate has in store for us, but we don't have to face it alone.
Mel Medarda in Arcane - Season 1 Episode 6
1Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.
Ted: "The road to this day has had a few twists and turns, hasn't it?"
Marshall: "Yeah... just a few. In a weird way, it all makes sense though, doesn't it?"
Marshall: "Yeah... just a few. In a weird way, it all makes sense though, doesn't it?"
Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 24
1When destiny calls, you answer the phone!
Hiro Nakamura in Heroes
Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action.
"If the stars in the sky are not fixed, then nothing is fixed. Nothing is eternal, all is temporary and ever-changing." She turned away from the stars, meeting his gaze. "Nothing is fixed, my lord. No course is so set it cannot be changed."
Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.
W. S. Merwin - The Moon Before Morning
Fate, I think, is a thief.
Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
Das, was vor uns liegt, kann gestaltet werden. Es ist nicht unser unabänderliches Schicksal.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Spartacus: "I had no choice, a man must accept his fate."
Sura: "Or be destroyed by it."
Sura: "Or be destroyed by it."
Sura in Spartacus - Season 1 Episode 11
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Morpheus: "Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: "No."
Morpheus: "Why not?"
Neo: "Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."
Neo: "No."
Morpheus: "Why not?"
Neo: "Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."
Neo in The Matrix
I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
Hypothetically, if the only choise you've got is to do the wrong thing, then it's not really the wrong thing, it's more like fate.
Vladimir Lem in Max Payne
