Destiny Quotes

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another"

"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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Again, 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. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"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, Author

"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"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, Psychologist

"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"You can be great only if it is your destiny"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise"

John Heywood, Dramatist

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"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, Author

"Character is destiny"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"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, Writer

"The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"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

"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

"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

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