Quotes about Destiny

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!

But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale- lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, humility, the fear of death, the terror of height and of distance, the glory of God, the infinite potentiality of reception whence springs that divine thirst of the soul; my aspiration also towards completion, and my confidence in the dual destiny.

A man going uphill may be at the same level as another man going down hill; but they are facing different ways and have different destinies. Our world, passing out of the old Paganism of Greece and Rome towards the consummation of Christendom and a Catholic civilization from which we all derive, is the very negation of the same world leaving the light of its ancestral religion and sliding back into the dark.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Follow your own star!

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill.