Destiny Quotes
What do I know of
man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
- Samuel Beckett
These struggling
tides of life that seem
In wayward, aimless course to tend,
Are eddies of the mighty stream
That rolls to its appointed end.
- William Cullen Bryant
I do not believe in a
fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls
on them unless they act.
- G. K. Chesterton
It is a mistake to
look too far ahead. Only one link of the
chain of destiny can be handled at a
time.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Remember that you are
an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you,
for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take
the part of a poor man, or a cripple,
or a ruler, or a private citizen, then
may you act that part with grace!
For to act well the part that is allotted to
us, that indeed is
ours to do, but to choose it is another's.
- Epictetus
Destiny grants us our
wishes, but in its own way,
in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
- Goethe
Everything comes
gradually and at its appointed hour.
- Ovid
There is no such
thing as an omen. Destiny does not
send us heralds. She is too wise or too
cruel for that.
- Oscar Wilde
We are face to face
with our destiny and we must meet it with high
and resolute courage. For us is
the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving
mightily;
let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A consistent soul
believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
- Unknown Author
A person often meets
his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
- Unknown Author
Adapt yourself to the
things among which your lot has been cast
and love sincerely the fellow
creatures with whom destiny has
ordained that you shall live.
- Unknown Author
A great revolution in
just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a
society and, further, will enable a change
in the destiny of humankind.
- Unknown Author
You and I have a
rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best
hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a
thousand years of darkness. If we fail,
at least let our children and our
children's children say of us we
justified our brief moment here. We did all
that could be done.
- Ronald Reagan
Destiny is a name
often given in retrospect to choices
that had dramatic consequences.
- J. K. Rowling
It is perhaps a more
fortunate destiny to have a taste for
collecting shells than to be born a
millionaire.
- Robert Louis
Stevenson
There is a mysterious
cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations
much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
- Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Our destiny changes
with our thought; we shall become what we wish
to become, do what we wish to
do, when our habitual
thought corresponds with our desire.
- Orison Swett Marden
No man is great
enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way
in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
- Henry Miller
Man's ultimate
destiny is to become one with the Divine Power
which governs and sustains the
creation and its creatures.
- Alfred A. Montapert
No love, no friendship
can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The real test of a
man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well
he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
- Jan Patocka
The ancient saying is
no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
- William Shakespeare
One meets his destiny
often in the road he takes to avoid it.
- French Proverb
If a man is destined
to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
- Yiddish Proverb
It's not what's happening
to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become.
Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you,
and what you're going to do
about them that will determine your ultimate
destiny.
- Anthony Robbins
More than anything
else, I believe it's our decisions, not the
conditions of our lives, that
determine our destiny.
- Anthony Robbins
Destiny is something
men select; women achieve it only
by default or stupendous suffering.
Not without a shudder
may the human
hand reach intothe mysterious urn of destiny.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Nature is at work..
Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy
and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall
follow.
- David Seabury
Such as we are made
of, such we be.
- William Shakespeare
No man is great
enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way
in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
- Henry Miller
We are no more free
agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave
of hearts.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
No love, no
friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it
forever.
- Francois Muriac
The real test of a
man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well
he plays the role that destiny assigned to him. - - Jan Patocka
It's not what's
happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you
become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to
you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate
destiny.
- Anthony Robbins
Destiny is something
men select; women achieve
it only by default or stupendous suffering.
- Harriet
Rosenstein
Nature is at work.. Character
and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and
reverence. All that is ours is the
power to choose which impulse we shall
follow.
- David Seabury
Such as we are made
of, such we be.
- William Shakespeare
The law of harvest is
to reap more than you sow.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and
you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- James Allen
We are made for
larger ends than Earth can encompass.
Oh, let us be true to our exalted
destiny.
- Catherine Booth
It appears I am
destined for something; I will live.
- Robert Clive
Fate, then, is a name
for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are
unpenetrated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anatomy is destiny.
- Sigmund Freud
We are not permitted
to choose the frame of our destiny.
But what we put into it is ours.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Men heap together the
mistakes of their lives,
and create a monster they call Destiny.
- John Oliver
Hobbes
We sow our thoughts
and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits
and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.
But you can catch
yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas
and setting others aside; and
that, I think, is where our personal
destinies are largely decided.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Nothing can have as
its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of
progress, is poison.
- Simone Weil
There is no such
thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest
source of destiny.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
No cause has he to
say his doom is harsh, who's made
the master of his destiny.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
If you begin the day
with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not
only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends,
and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
- Unknown Author
Destiny is for people
who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
- R. Stevens
It's choice - not
chance - that determines your destiny.
- Jean Nidetch
The preservation of
the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny
of the republican model of
government are justly considered...
deeply, ...finally, staked on the
experiment entrusted to the
hands of the American people.
- George Washington
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
It is a mistake to
try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at
a time.
- Sir Winston
Churchill
Ideals are like
stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the
seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides,
and following them, you reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz
No trumpets sound
when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known
silently.
- Agnes de Mille
Real, constructive
mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your
hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of
thought on which to ride.
The nobility of your life as well as your happiness
depends upon
the direction in which that train of thought is going.
- Laurence J. Peter
I don't know what
your destiny will be, but one thing I do know:
the only ones among you who will
be really happy are those
who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Our problems are man made,
therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants. No
problem of human
destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
It is not in the
stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- William Shakespeare
I like coincidences.
They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just
a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that,
from time to time,
we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
- Chuck Sigars
There is no such
thing as chance; and what seem to us merest
accident springs from the deepest
source of destiny.
- Schiller
The best years of
your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You
don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your
own destiny.
- Albert Ellis
Great people and
great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even
if they do not consciously realize
the how, the where, the what.
- Percy Cerutty
The destiny of man is
in his own soul
- Herodotus
Lots of folks confuse
bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard
Our problems are
man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is
beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
I almost think it is
the ultimate destiny of science to
exterminate the human race.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Thoughts lead on to
purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide
character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tyron Edwards
Just because we've
been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above -
to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever
essential humanity we can.
- Stephenie Meyer
Our problems are
man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is
beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Watch your thoughts,
they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions,
they become habits.
Watch your habits,
they become your character.
Watch your character,
it becomes your destiny.
All share a common
destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the
unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the
good man, so with the sinner; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those
who are afraid to take them.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 NIV
But peace does not
rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in
the hearts and minds of
all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us
strive to build peace, a desire for
peace, a willingness to work for peace in
the hearts and minds of
all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the
problems of
human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Often we don't even
realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone
else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.
- Oprah Winfrey
Ideals are like
stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the
seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and
following them you will reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz
A Common Destiny for
All ] So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise
and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate
awaits him.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1 NIV
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.
- Lady Gaga
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
You can't connect the
dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have
to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in
something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the
dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow
your heart,
even when it leads you off the well worn path.
- Steve Jobs
Destiny is but a
phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology
for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
As for me, to love
you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing
which would contradict your wishes,
this is my destiny
and the meaning of my life
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The law of harvest is
to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and
you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- James Allen
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce
We are made for
larger ends than Earth can encompass.
Oh, let us be true to our exalted
destiny.
- Catherine Booth
You and I have a
rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best
hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of
darkness. If we fail,
at least let our children and our children's children say of us we
justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
- Ronald Reagan
Woman is the
salvation or the destruction of the family.
She carries its destiny in the
folds of her mantle.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
Anatomy is destiny.
- Sigmund Freud
Only by joy and
sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They
learn what to do and what to avoid.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The destiny of any
nation at any given time depends on the opinion
of its young people, those
under twenty-five.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are not permitted
to choose the frame of our destiny.
But what we put into it is ours.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Our destiny changes
with our thoughts; we shall become what
we wish to become, do what we wish to
do, when our
habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
- Orison Swett Marden
Nature is at work..
Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy
and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
- David Seabury
Man's ultimate
destiny is to become one with the Divine Power
which governs and sustains the
creation and its creatures.
- Alfred A. Montapert
Men heap together the
mistakes of their lives and
create a monster they call destiny.
- John Oliver Hobbes
Destiny: A tyrant's
authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce
Choices are the
hinges of destiny.
- Pythagoras
I have a feeling this
is destiny. “On the eve of her third marriage”
- Christie Brinkley
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
I believe that you
control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop
and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I
need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then
you do it
- Leo Buscaglia
We write our own
destiny; we become what we do.
- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Watch your thoughts;
they become words. Watch your words;
they become actions. Watch your actions;
they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character;
it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw
The torment of
precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.
It is sometimes better to
abandon one's self to destiny.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
It appears I am destined
for something; I will live.
- Robert Clive
Destiny is an
absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral
determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act
when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on
such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
- Aleister Crowley
I knew what my job
was; it was to go out
and meet the people and love them.
- Diana, Princess of Wales
A consistent soul
believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Thoughts lead on to
purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions
form habits; habits decide
character; and character fixes our destiny.
- Tryon Edwards
And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule,
or to
impose himself in any other way.
- Albert Einstein
Fate, then, is a name
for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are
un-penetrated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sow a thought and you
reap an action;
sow an 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
