Destiny Quotes

"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

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

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"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 is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"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, Writer

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

Aeschylus, Playwright

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Character is destiny"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"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 no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"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

"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

"We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise"

John Heywood, Dramatist

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"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

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"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

"Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness"

Islom Karimov, Statesman

"Control your own destiny or someone else will"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"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

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