Destiny Quotes

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, and I was sure I should not fail.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Everything Is Everything. What is meant to be, will be.

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Oneself, indeed, is one's own protector. One does, indeed [make] one's own destiny. Therefore, control yourself as a merchant does a fine horse.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

You are the creator of your own destiny.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.