Destiny and Fate

Fate is what life gives to you.  Destiny is what you do with it.  If you are five-four, you ain’t ever going to be six-two.  If you have trouble putting the cap on your toothpaste tube in the morning, mechanical engineering is not for you. That’s fate.

But the way a person accepts the things he can’t change and then goes 105 percent for the things he can, that’s destiny.  What most people tend to forget is that we have unbelievable control over our destiny.

- Bill Gove

Sow a thought and you reap an act; sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man’s destiny is determined by what he thinks of himself.

-  H.D. Thoreau

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it isn’t a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- W.J. Bryan

Our victory and our loss lie within ourselves.

-  Epictetus

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it isn't a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-  W. J. Byran