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Fate and Destiny Quotes and Quotations

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

- Bob Dylan

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

- Russell Green

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

- Liane Cardes

That that is is.

- William Shakespeare

Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.(Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.)

- French proverb

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row, we are steered by fate.

- Samuel Butler

Whatever limits us we call Fate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

- Marcus Aurelius

Certain signs precede certain events.

- Cicero

See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

- W. S. Gilbert

Destiny, n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

- Ambrose Bierce

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

- Seneca

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate, is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

- Justus Lipsius

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

- French proverb

It is a long road from conception to completion.

- Moliere

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

- Sophie Rostopchine Sigur

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

- Latin proverb

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

- Henry Miller

That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it.

- The Koran

When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter.

- Persian proverb