Destiny and Overcoming

There is no education like adversity.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Even though a god, I have learned to obey the times.

How True it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance. C. S.

 

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R.

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R.

 

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R.

 

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R.

 

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us— by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

 

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

 

The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.