Nobody can define their destiny, but you can take action to prepare for it. That is why I’ve collected some of the most motivating quotes about destiny to full tank your life! 🛣
In this guide, you will find a wide range of sayings on fate and quotes about destiny that are great for people who need wisdom and strength to face life and the future.Â
Side note: If I have missed any famous or inspiring saying or quotes about destiny, please comment below and I will be sure to include them in this list! 🙂
67+ Must Know Quotes About Destiny!
1. “Character is destiny.” – Heraclitus
2. “The destiny of man is in his own soul.” – Herodotus
3. “Take destiny in your own hands.” – Chanda Kochhar
4. “We are each other’s destiny.” – Jacqueline Novogratz
5. “Your genetics is not your destiny.” – George M. Church
6. “I can control my destiny. I control my life.” – Shahid Khan
7. “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch
8. “I believe in destiny, God’s hand, and hard work.” – Katrina Kaif
9. “You can be great only if it is your destiny.” – Andrea Bocelli
10. “Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.” – David O. McKay
11. “To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.” – Laura Esquivel
12. “Coincidences mean you’re on the right path.” – Simon Van Booy
13. “No man can be stronger than his destiny.” – Mary Hunter Austin
14. “In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.” – Chanda Kochhar
15. “It’s choice not chance that determines your destiny.” – Jean Nidetch
16. “Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.” – Harry S Truman
17. “Every people should be originators of their own destiny.” – Martin Delany
18. “The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.” – James Woods
19. “You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.” – John C. Maxwell
20. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Tony Robbins
21. “I do believe that one way to have a destiny is to choose one.” – Melinda McGraw
22. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
23. “The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.” – Albert Einstein
24. “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.” – Fidel Castro
25. “In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.” – Linus Torvalds
26. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine
27. “Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.” – Gustav Mahler
28. “Some things are destined to be it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.” – J.R. Ward
29. “One knows less about one’s own destiny than about anything else on earth.” – Gabrielle Roy
30. “We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.” – Rita Hayworth
31. “Ignorance is bliss, or so we’re told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.” – Gayle Lynds
32. “And when a man faces destiny, destiny ends and a man comes into his own.” – Andre Malraux
33. “Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.” – Georges Braque
34. “All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.” – Nick Saban
35. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” – J.K. Rowling
37. “I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn’t happen, it was for a reason.” – Didier Drogba
38. “Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.” – Andrea Bocelli
39. “Destiny has two ways of crushing us by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
40. “It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.” – Niki de St. Phalle
41. “Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.” – Stan Lee
42. “Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.” – Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
43. “We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.” – Dag Hammarskjold
44. “Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn’t mean we have to stay there.” – James Redfield
45. “We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.” – Placido Domingo
46. “We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.” – Cecile de France
47. “Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
48. “God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.” – Joel Osteen
49. “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” – Winston Churchill
50. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
51. “No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” – Agnes de Mille
52. “Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.” – Mariane Pearl
53. “Every man has his own destiny, the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” – Henry Miller
54. “My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.” – Jeff Probst
55. “Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” – Charles Reade
56. “Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
57. “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
58. “Some things are made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but the quality you don’t learn. Quality you are born with.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
59. “Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.” – Deepak Chopra
60. “Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.” – Joseph Heller
61. “Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.” – Alfred A. Montapert
62. “Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can’t have any regrets.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
63. “Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.” – Marcus Aurelius
64. “No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.” – Henry Miller
65. “Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.” – Dag Hammarskjold
66. “Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
67. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
68. “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 fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.” – Paulo Coelho