Fate and destiny are such terms which are intertwined during our day to day conversations. It is not uncommon to hear people say sometimes that, “She eventually met her fate” or “it must be his destiny”. But has it ever occurred to you the real difference between fate and destiny? It is believed that fate is based on a pre-existing notion that there is a natural order of the universe which can never change, irrespective of the fact, no matter how hard we try to change it.
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Overall, fate binds negative notions connected with it. Whenever something bad happens, it is always because of fate, at least that is what most claims it to be. Through the ages, fate has come to be associated with our lives which is already predetermined and written in our stars. Fate is something undesirable, at least the pessimistic terms such as “to seal one’s fate” and “ a fate worse than death” prove it to be so.
Destiny, on the other hand, is related to more positive notions of our lives. It is something we can actively shape and alter. There is an element of choice when it comes to destiny, unlike fate. Qualities such as patience, compassion, willpower, and courage help to change and control one’s destiny. Actions can become habits, habits can become a character and finally, the character can become your destiny. This is why most people believe that your destiny really lies in your hands.
Fate is something which one cannot change it is inevitable. Destiny is what happens to you when you commit to growing and fate is what happens to your life when you do not take your own responsibilities. Active and conscious decisions make you “destined for greatness”.
One can say that fate and destiny are the two sides of the same coin; both are predetermined and reflect on our existence. But there is an important thing to note, there are infinite possibilities to life. Fulfilling your destiny means actively and consciously streaming our lives in a certain direction.
We have compiled some of the best quotes about fate and destiny. The choice is yours, which side do you choose!
Famous Fate And Destiny Quotations
“Character is destiny.” – Heraclitus
“What’s meant to be will always find a way.”
“Actions are the seed of fate.”- Harry S Truman
“The destiny of man is in his own soul.” – Herodotus
“We create our fate every day we live.”- Henry Miller
“Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.”- Lord Byron
“Take destiny in your own hands.” – Chanda Kochhar
“We are each other’s destiny.” – Jacqueline Novogratz
“Your genetics is not your destiny.” – George M. Church
“Everything comes gradually at its appointed hour.”- Ovid
“Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!”- John McLeod
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”- Seneca
“Each man is the architect of his own fate.”- Appius Claudius
“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”- Amy Tan
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch
“it takes only a moment for the destiny to flip over.” ― Jyoti Arora
“Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.”- Proverb
“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”- Vincent Van Gogh
“In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.” – Chanda Kochhar
“Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.” – David O. McKay
“Everything happens when it’s supposed to.”- Michelle C. Ustaszeski
“Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.”- Seneca
“To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.” – Laura Esquivel
“Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!” – Stephen Curry
“Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.” – Harry S Truman
“It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.” – Jean Nidetch
“The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.” – James Woods
“Every people should be originators of their own destiny.” – Martin Delany
“Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.”- Albert Camus
“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”- Voltaire
“We are partners by fate. We become friends by choice.”- Jacquie McTaggart
“That was the thing about luck: its laws were those of scarcity.” ― Lily Gardner
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Tony Robbins
“You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.” – John C. Maxwell
“Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.” – Fidel Castro
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
“In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.” – Linus Torvalds
“I’ve taken my destiny into my own hands and I’m in a happy place.” – Charlie Simpson
“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
“Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.” – Gustav Mahler
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine
“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”- Mary Kay
“Some things are destined to be – it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.” – J.R. Ward
“And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.” – Andre Malraux
“One knows less about one’s own destiny than about anything else on earth.” – Gabrielle Roy
“Ignorance is bliss, or so we’re told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.” – Gayle Lynds
“We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.” – Rita Hayworth
“Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.” – Georges Braque
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.”- Horace
“All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.” – Nick Saban
“Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us” ― Mimi Novic
“Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.” – Andrea Bocelli
“I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn’t happen, it was for a reason.” – Didier Drogba
“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” – J.K. Rowling
“I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn’t.” – Roger Ross Williams
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.” – Stan Lee
“It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.” – Niki de St. Phalle
“Fate means seeing the hand of God move clearly through your life, even with your eyes closed.”- Rusty Fischer
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”- Francis Bacon
“Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn’t mean we have to stay there.” – James Redfield
“We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.” – Placido Domingo
“Fate’s a wicked bestie. It may decide your destiny, but it doesn’t define you. Only you can do that.” ― Sarah Newland
“I’ll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I’m going to fight for my dignity and my honor.” – Ferdinand Marcos
“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
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.”- William Shakespeare
“Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” – Agnes de Mille
“Fate – everything happens for a reason. And when fate happens to look for the good in it as it is there!”- Catherine Pulsifer
“Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” – Henry Miller
“Let nothing distract us from being happy, let nothing else determine our fate, but ourselves.”- Olehile Fischer Thataone
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
“Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.” – Mariane Pearl
“A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence.”- Ronald Harmon
“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
“Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.” – Tom Ford
“The direction you don’t look at is the fate you missed! If you look at every direction, you will rule every fate!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don’t learn. Quality you are born with.” – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“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
“Tenacious people don’t rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.”- John C. Maxwell
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”- Marcus Aurelius
“Destiny is not a 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
“How you feel and how you react is in direct relation to how you think. Some people let random circumstances predict their day.”- Catherine Pulsifer
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” – The Bhagavad Gita
“The concept of destiny is something that humanity has to get rid of because it degrades the future-creator power of human mind!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“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
“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
“Failure only happens when you lose your willpower to continue trying…If we let the obstacles get the best of us then it was our choice to fail, not fate.” ― Lindsey Rietzsch
“This is how life works. We are neither the authors nor the pawns of our life stories but rather partners somehow with fate or destiny or circumstance or providence.”- John Ortberg
“Life is uncertain, the future unknown. This is neither good nor bad. It just is, like gravity. Yet the task remains: how to master our own fate, even so.”- Jim Collins; Morten T. Hansen
“It is a sign of all those cowards who say, “This is my bad luck and I will have to accept it.” A positive thinker would say, “I will decide my fate and my own destiny.” – Bill Mcdowell
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.”- Thomas Jefferson
“Fate is a train roaring down the track of life. Sometimes you step off the track, and unless you look back over your shoulder and see the train go roaring past, you don’t know what you missed.”- Brenda Warneka
“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.”- Paulo Coelho
“When we are born, no one immediately knows our destiny or outcome in life, save the Creator Himself, but while we are here, we too can choose and direct ourselves onto a path to better our circumstances.”- Carey W. Digsby Jr
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I am Ananya a Graduate from Holmes College Sydney. I am a professional speaker and I love motivating people and inspire them to pursue their dreams. I have been an active contributor to The Random Vibez from last 2 years. Sharing quotes, proverbs, and sayings of great authors to touch people's lives to make it better.
