The best quotes about Fate / Destiny

"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."

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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.

Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

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.

I guess destiny is not the path given to us, but the path we choose for ourselves.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

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.

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.

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Our fate lies within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it.

Destiny is for losers. It's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.

Fate is not like the cut of a blade, young one, but rather like the myriad of paths formed when a hammer cracks ice.

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.

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

Nothing 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.

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?'

Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?

Human 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.

If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?

Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

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.

Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.