Destiny Quotes

"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

"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, Statesman

"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

"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

"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

"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck"

Joseph Heller, 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Huey Newton, Activist

"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

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

Mark Shields, Journalist

"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

"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

"Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"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, Lawyer

"We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"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

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"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

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