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Quotes about Destiny


Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

Michael J. McCarthy

The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Paul G. Thomas

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster

Fear not death, for it is your destiny.

Ben Sira

The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.

Frederick Speakman

Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny To hang or wed: both hath one hour; And whether it be, I am well sure, Hanging is better of the twain; Sooner done, and shorter pain.

Unattributed Author

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

Ludovico Ariosto

Character is fate. (Destiny)

Heraclitus of Ephesus

No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?

William Shakespeare

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch

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

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Agnes DeMille

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

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Alexis Carrel

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

John F Kennedy

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

Alfred A Montapert

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

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

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

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

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 S. Marden

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

French Proverb

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