Destiny Quotes

"So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"Control your own destiny or someone else will"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth"

Gabrielle Roy, Author

"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold"

Paul Martin, Politician

"What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny"

William R. Alger, Writer

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny"

Norman Cousins, Author

"I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out"

Michael York, Actor

"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny"

Huey Newton, Activist

"Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine"

Courtney Love, Musician

"I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"You shape your own destiny"

Chet Atkins, Musician

"God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us"

Joel Osteen, Clergyman

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny"

Harry S. Truman, President

"Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist