Quotes about Destiny

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose... Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

If life ends at the grave, then it makes no ultimate difference whether you live as a Stalin or as a Mother Teresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behavior, you may as well just live as you please. As the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky put it: "If there is no immortality … then all things are permitted.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.