Life Course Quotes

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

No person can choose his age or the condition of his time.

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.