Fate & Destiny

Life is not a situation, but a process; not static, by dynamic. It’s essential element is change, and the great question facing each of us is whether we will channel that change in the directions we want to go, shaping our destiny, or whether we will permit our activities and our character to be determined by those random forces we call fate. To the extent that we procrastinate, we are following the second course.

                                                                                                            -- Edwin C. Bliss

The past is like a river flowing out of sight; the future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight.

                        -- Anna Hoxie

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

                                    -- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The Creator has not given you a longing to do what you have no ability to do.

                                    -- Orison Swett Marden

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

                        -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

                                    -- Tyron Edwards

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

                                    -- Richard Hovey

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

                                    -- Albert Schweitzer

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

                        -- Amy Tan

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

                        -- Andre Maurois

It is good to have an end to journey towards;

but it is the journey that matters in the end.

                        -- Ursula K. LeGuin

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.

Destiny is made known silently.

                        -- Agnes DeMille

You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as you let your own light shine, you unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As you are liberated from your own fear, your presence automatically liberates others.

                                    -- Nelson Mandela

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

                        -- William Jennings Bryan

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.

                                    -- Horace