Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please …. All history is the record of man’s signal failure to thwart his destiny.

I went to the ultimate high to an ultimate low. It's just how life goes, and everything happens for a reason.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

The world runs on luck.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.