DESTINY

Related Subjects: Chance, Circumstances, Fame, Fate, Fortune, Future, Luck, Providence

1. Destiny
   Waiteth alike for them that men call free,
   And them by others mastered.—AESCHYLUS, The Choephoroe
   

2. Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
   Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
   Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character;
   Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny.—Anonymous
   

3. Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.—CONFUCIUS, Analects
   

4. This is the thing that I was born to do.—SAMUEL DANIEL, Musophilus
   

5. Man supposes that he directs his life and govern his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.—GOETHE
   

6. No living man can send me to the shades
   Before my time; no man of woman born,
   Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.—HOMER, Iliad
   

7. That which God writes on thy forehead, thou wilt come to it.—The Koran

8. The future works out great men's destinies:
   The present is enough for common souls,
   Who, never looking forward, are indeed
   Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age
   Are petrified forever.—LOWELL, Act for Truth
   

9. If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.—MACHIAVELLI
   

10. We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
    Our work is not design, but destiny.—OWEN MEREDITH, Clytemnestra
    

11. Destiny has more resources than the most imaginative composer of fiction.—F. F. MOORE, The Jessamy Bride
    

12. The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.—Proverb
    

13. Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling.—Proverb
    

14. The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot.—J. P. RICHTER
    

15. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Address, 1936
    

16. Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
    Have I commandment on the pulse of life?—SHAKESPEARE, King John
    

17. If he had been as you and you as he,
    You would have slipt like him.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

18. Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

19. And all the bustle of departure—sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating—just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.—MADAME DE STAEL, Corinne
    

20. We bear each one our own destiny.—VERGIL, Aeneid
    

21. Human destiny is a race between ordered thought made effective by education, on the one side, and catastrophe on the other: so far, catastrophe seems to be leading.—H. G. WELLS
    

22. The tissue of the Life to be
    We weave with colors all our own,
    And in the field of Destiny
    We reap as we have sown.—WHITTIER, Raphael