The best Quotes from Merlin - The new Adventures

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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."

Merlin: You know, lad, that love business is a powerful thing."
Arthur: "Greater than gravity?"
Merlin: "Well, yes, boy. In its way, I'd say it's the greatest force on earth."

Don't take gravity too lightly, or it'll catch up with you.

Everybody's got problems. The world's full of problems.

Develop your brain! There's the higher power!

Archimedes: "If the boy goes about saying the world is round, they'll take him for a lunatic."
Arthur: "The world is round?"
Merlin: "Yes. Yes, that's right, and it also, goes a-round."
Arthur: "You mean it'll be round someday."
Merlin: "No, no, no, it's round now. Man will discover this in centuries to come."

"Hockety pockety wockety wack! Odds and ends and bric-a-brac!" Be with you in just a minute, son. Packing's almost done.

Look, for the last time: We have nothing to protect but our honor. So you can take your cheap horse piss that you call "whiskey" which, by the way, is spelled without an "e" and is nothing compared to a Single Malt Scotch and you can go fk yourself.

When you lose everything, that's when you're finally free.

We're not defined by what we los. We're defined by what we survive.

They're exhausting to inflate, they scare the shit out of you when they pop, and uninflated they just look like a pile of clown-condoms.