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Quotes about Destiny


Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

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

And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.

Paul Acquasanta

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.

A. A. Unknown

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

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].

Christie Brinkley

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Catherine Booth

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Samuel Beckett

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

G. C. Lichtenberg

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.

Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus

Habits form character and character is destiny.

Joseph Kaines

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Tyron Edwards

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-.

French Unknown-

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

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

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. thanks to Dana Bidne -William Jennings Bryan.

William Jennings Bryan

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Quentin Crisp

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Francois Mauriac

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?

Emma Goldman

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.

Robert Burton

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