Personal Fate Quotes

What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

I regard it as a foregone conclusion that we shall ultimately whip the Yankees. We are bound to believe that, anyhow; but the war is going to be a long and terrible one, first. We've only just begun it, and very few of us will see the end. All I ask of fate is that I may be killed leading a cavalry charge

I care about my future, of course, but whatever happens, happens.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

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

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

I do not think I will die, but whether I do or not, the company will pursue the same policies.

we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Look, here's the deal: The Chiefs' fate and the Royals' fate, that's my fate.

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.