Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
Gustav Mahler

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
Martin Delany

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family.
Shaquille O'Neal

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
Fernando Alonso

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
Ken Follett

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
Frantz Fanon

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
Norman Mailer

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Joel Osteen

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
Ferdowsi

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
Frantz Fanon