Fate & Destiny Quotes (3415 Quotes)

Smile at Fortune, with two so knit to thee!

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck."

I have a bone to pick with Fate.

Best reason the Tide will go unbeaten Defense. Alabama has scored one touchdown in two games and won both of them. Jamie Christensen settled each with late field goals. I really don't believe in luck, ... It's destiny. It's our destiny to go undefeated.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

To me, 2002 was so personal and emotional. I believe that you create your own destiny, but it was almost like there was a plan for us. I don't feel that this time. I feel this is more normal. The reason we've won is because we've played the best. If we play the best in the postseason, we should win. And if we don't, we'll get beat. But 2002 was the only year I had the feeling it was inevitable.

From my point of view, we're lucky. It could have been a lot worse.

He's had a lot of bad luck. But when he gets bad luck, he compounds it by making stupid fouls. He knows it, and I hope that over the last stretch of the season here, he can have the discipline not to do it because we need him in the game.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

They play because they have a lot of fun and Annette especially enjoys the competition. They are lucky, none of them have received serious injuries while playing, unlike some of their friends and teammates. Yes, I worry about them getting hurt while playing, but as long as they enjoy it and want to continue, I will be there to encourage them.

Every time I read the script I would get goose bumps, ... It was the idea that this life, this change of fortune, had actually happened. It was real.

This is the first time in the annals of Palestine that they will be completely in charge of their land. We wish them luck. Their betterment is in our interest. Their joy is not my pain.

Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Luke... Luke... do not... do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor or suffer your father's fate you will. Luke, when gone am I... the last of the Jedi will you be. Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned, Luke. There is... another... Sky... walker.

People still aren't letting me live down that loss to Providence. But we're coming along.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

If you look back over the last 20 years, the Fortune 500 companies in this country have created zero net new jobs. But at the same time, smaller businesses have created tens of millions of jobs. So if we care about growing our economy, as I believe we must, we really need to look at the challenges facing small business.

I'm not lucky. If I play another player and don't play really good I think I can win. But with Haas, it's impossible. He's a great player.

With a win this weekend, we can help to control our own destiny, and not put our fate into the hands of others.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

Be grateful for luck.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

O Nanak, He is obtained by those, upon whose faces and foreheads such pre-recorded destiny is written.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

I hate to gain points like that, but that's plain racing luck, ... We have had bad luck this year, also. He will be able to bounce back, and that just makes for an even closer points race.

The cardinal elements possess this title through the fact that they are the last frontier to the level of awareness through which that world can be defined. Life and Death are cardinal because nothing can include them in its structure by becoming an opposable reference, and yet what can be more opposable than waking up from this dream with world and destiny Destiny Waking up into Destiny.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

The signal is nothing is sacred off of Florida, and a lot of this is secretarial discretion. Interior can do it themselves, and so there is growing concern that the next secretary will determine the fate of Florida's tourism economy.

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

I think it's beneficial because we control our own destiny. Every time we play them it gets us ready for the playoffs.

I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate, or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished, and never knew the danger it incurred. It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an evil fate by apprehending it.

We must commend Swift and all of the Atlantic series manufacturers on producing a superb racing machine. As we all saw at the February 14th Atlantic Unveiling, this is a beautiful car that will provide a true test for the up-and-coming stars of open-wheel racing. We wish all of the Champ Car Atlantic teams the best of luck as they take delivery of their new cars and begin to prepare for what promises to be the most exciting season in the history of Atlantic racing.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Fate keeps on happening.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Here is a day now before me A day is a fortune and an estate who loses a day loses life.

Ten years ago, if I was sitting outside of the Jets stadium saying, 'I want to buy the Jets,' I'd get a pat on the head 'Good luck, kid.' But with the technology now available, you can do something about it,

What is holy for us, humans, nowWhat can we love the most in this first century of the third millennium, in these first years of this millennium than images of the crucifixion of a Man, of the Son of a Man Why do we love so much this image with such a cruel destiny and not other images It is because if the fact that we identify to that cruel Destiny, we become complementary to it and thus that destiny is a part of our life and our existence as unitary whole with ourselves, who we are sacrificed with the same aggressiveness on the altar of the love of this world, which is itself Love This is why we people believe in the church of that image with a Cruel Destiny, we bow before it and we pray because the image is sacred to our souls because they too feel sacrificed on a huge cross of destiny of each one of us. What must we do Must we change the crucified image of the Christ or change ourselves in order to change the crucified image We all want not to have anymore this cruel destiny of our existence, where the world of love is a world of crimes, villainesses and thefts of all kinds.How can we chase these miseries away of our world without chasing ourselves out of it Such a sad world in which, I say it with sorrow, the ultimate form of love, which is Holiness represents a Christ crucified on the wood of a cross, thirsty and mocked which receives vinegar to quench his thirst. This Christ is us now, this Christ is the man nowadays and the man of the past centuries that lost his Sacred Self in the mists of his own history. This Christ will have to be replaced in us by each one of us, but not by force and not to put something else instead. No In the place of this Christ, there will always have to be an empty place, to remind us eternally from where we left, to know where the loss of the Sacred Self can lead to.

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

But mark how heavily this befell to the poor gentlewoman:
there she lost a noble and renowned brother, in his love toward
her ever most kind and natural; with him the portion and sinew of
her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with both, her combinate
husband, this well-seeming Angelo.