The 50 best phrases about destiny

Fate can understand how the power of superior forces determines the order of events. That is to say, destiny is that mysterious conductor that guides our lives towards a future that is already written and from which, whatever we do, we cannot escape.

This belief that destiny takes us where we should go suggests that everything that happens in our life It is not the product of chance, on the contrary, they happen because history was marked and that is how they should happen.

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The best phrases about destiny and its mysterious force

There are many intellectuals and philosophers who have reflected on destiny. There is an immense number of phrases about destiny that try to give an explanation or even deny it and destroy its existence.

But the destination is there, taking us where we have to go without our actions being able to direct us in another direction. Or maybe not, as many great thinkers have said in some of these, which are the best phrases about destiny.

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1. You have to take risks, follow certain paths and abandon others. No person chooses without fear. (Paulo Coelho)

Whether or not destiny exists, we cannot live without taking risks or facing our fears.

2. A son is a question we ask destiny. (José María Pemán)

A beautiful phrase about hope in life and the future.

3. People believe that destiny is like a river that flows in only one direction. But I have seen the face of time and it is like an ocean in a storm.

The destination is not a single path that leads to a specific direction.

4. It is in your moments of decision that you create your destiny. (Tony Robbins)

Destiny is created from the decisions we make.

5. It is not in the stars to maintain our destiny, but in ourselves. (Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare, like many others, did not think that destiny was an immovable future, but that we created it.

6. It is choice, not chance, that determines your destiny. (Jean Nidetch)

Once again it is said that our choices determine our destiny.

7. To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. (Laura Esquivel)

What you do today determines your future and therefore your destiny.

8. From the moral and intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad, but the owner of his destiny. (Jean piaget)

Since we are born, we are masters and not puppets of our destiny.

9. The days do not acquire flavor until one escapes the obligation of having a destination. (Emile Cioran)

A very profound phrase to reflect on the weight of believing that we have an immovable destiny.

10. Let no one tell what to do to someone who has already decided what his destiny has to be. (Arabic proverb)

When you have discovered what your destiny is, no one should tell you anything.

11. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life only by ourselves, we find it with another. (Thomas Merton)

Perhaps the only true destiny of all human beings is love.

12. We will have the fate that we deserved us. (Albert Einstein)

The destiny that corresponds to us is the one we earn.

13. You will never fulfill your destiny by doing a job you despise. (John C. Maxwell)

You will not fulfill your mission in life, if you do not find yourself doing what you like.

14. Fighting against your destiny is like fighting against yourself, destiny is like a river, it is easier to just flow with it.

The destination is already marked, you just have to let yourself be carried away by it and not fight against the current.

15. Each one makes his destiny. (Miguel de Cervantes)

Destiny is forged by ourselves.

16. I believed that the route passed through man, and that destiny had to come from there. (Pablo Neruda)

Destiny is determined after passing through our being.

17. I don't believe in fate. I believe in the signs. (Elisabet Benavent)

Perhaps there are signs everywhere that tell us if we are going in the right direction towards our destination.

18. Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values ​​become your destination. (Mahatma Gandhi)

A great reflection on how we build our destiny.

19. It was inevitable: the smell of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of conflicted loves. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A poetic phrase about destiny.

20. Dreams are like the stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow in their footsteps, they will guide you to your own destiny. (Liam James)

Dreams are the raw material on the road to destiny.

21. We are destined to invent our destiny, with no second chances. That is why men make mistakes and let us down, and we commit atrocities, but also, thanks to that, we can transform our lives, invent its contents. (Fernando Savater)

If the human being is the one who creates his destiny, then it is through his mistakes rather than his success, that he is shaping that destiny.

22. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods, but the truth is that it works, as a burning challenge, on the consciences of men. (Eduardo Galeano)

The great writer Eduardo Galeano subtracts mysticism from destiny and reflects on how it is forged in the consciousness of men.

23. We call destiny to everything that limits our power. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

When there is something stronger than our will, we call it destiny to justify ourselves.

24. A man is nothing other than what he makes of himself. (Jean Paul Sartre)

A powerful reflection on how we shape ourselves.

25. Walker, there is no path, the path is made by walking. (Antonio Machado)

A poetic way of facing that we are the ones who build the destination and the path to it.

26. Whatever heaven has ordained to happen, there is no diligence or human wisdom that can prevent it. (Miguel de Cervantes)

When something is written in your destiny, no matter how hard you try to prevent, it will be fulfilled.

27. I have understood that we are deaf and blind, that we come from the night to return to the night without knowing anything about our destiny. (Julien Green)

A more pessimistic thought about how we always meet our destiny.

28. Sad and great is the fate of the artist. (Franz Liszt)

The bittersweet taste of artists' lives as the only destination they can aspire to.

29. A warrior knows that the end never justifies the means. Because there is no end; there are only the means. If he thinks only of the goal, he will fail to pay attention to the road signs. If he just concentrates on one question, he will lose several answers that are next to him. For this reason, the warrior surrenders. (Paulo Coelho)

The destination does not matter, what matters is the means of reaching it, even if we never reach it.

30. A constant soul believes in fate, capricious in chance. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Destiny has to do with the wisdom of the soul to guide us towards it.

31. Don't live as if you have a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is one step away, make yourself good while life and strength are still yours. (Marcus Aurelius)

If there is a marked destination, it is not as far away as we think.

32. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the destination chain can be handled at a time. (Winston Churchill)

On the way to our destination, we cannot lose ourselves in trying to glimpse it, we must walk in today.

33. Control your own destiny or someone else will. (Jack Welch)

We must take charge of our destiny so as not to be controlled by someone else.

34. We want to control our own destiny, but we must take responsibility for our results. (Doug Ducey)

More than trying to reach our destination, the important thing is to assume our responsibility for our actions.

35. Fortune is crystal; It shines, but it is fragile. (Latin proverb)

That destination we intend to reach could look beautiful, but it is surely fragile.

36. Man is the true creator of his destiny. When he is not convinced of it, he is nothing in life. (Gustave Le Bon)

Only we create our destiny.

37. Man must choose, not accept his fate. (Paulo Coelho)

Infinite possibilities open up before us, we must choose what we want and not assume it with resignation.

38. Everywhere, man blames nature and destiny, but his destiny is nothing more than the echo of his character and his passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. (Democritus)

If there is a destiny, it is forged through our being and actions.

39. Many people confuse mismanagement with destiny. (Kin Hubbard)

When we want to justify ourselves by a result that does not favor us, it is easy to say that it is part of destiny and that it was already written.

40. If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you wax a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. (André Maurois)

People and characters have a destiny.

41. The important thing is not what destiny does to us, but what we do with it. (Florence Nightingale)

If we have a marked destination, the important thing is what we do with it.

42. What is considered destiny blindness is actually myopia itself. (William Faulkner)

Rather than blame our destiny, we must take responsibility.

43. Letting go means coming to the conclusion that some people are part of your story, but not your destiny. (Steve Maraboli)

Not all the people we meet along the way are part of our destiny.

44. I see at the end of my rough path that I was the architect of my own destiny; that if I extracted the ice or honey from things, it was because in them I put gall or tasty honeys: when I planted rose bushes, I always harvested roses. (Loved nerve)

A beautiful and very famous reflection by Amado Nervo on destiny.

45. Never look where you come from, but where you are going. (Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais)

The past is not as important as destiny is.

46. Fate is the one that shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who play. (Shakespeare)

If destiny exists, it is laid on the table and we play with it.

47. We often find our destiny by the paths we take to avoid it. (Jean de la Fontaine)

Perhaps there is no reason to flee from our destiny, because the more we cling to moving away, the closer we get to it.

48. Believe me, the star of your destiny shines in your heart. (Friedrich Schiller)

Destiny can be a guide to know where to go, and that guide is always within ourselves.

49. A person who owns his destiny is more important than his destiny. (Wilhelm von Humboldt)

More important than destiny, it is who are we to take possession of it.

50. The destination opens its routes. (Virgil)

Fate is present and slips away, it will always find the way for us to reach it.