Destiny Quotes

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"One country, one constitution, one destiny"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"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

"It is the destiny of mint to be crushed"

Waverley Lewis Root, Journalist

"Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned"

Ignazio Silone, Author

"The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day"

Waverley Lewis Root, Journalist

"At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point"

Roh Moo-hyun, Politician

"Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it"

Hector Elizondo, Actor

"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words"

Ken Follett, Author

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