Destiny Quotes

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

"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time"

Denis Waitley, Writer

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

Emma Bonino, Politician

"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses"

Woodrow Wilson

"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

"A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny"

Bill Frist, Politician

"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen"

Audrey Tautou, Actress

"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others"

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Statesman

"My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny"

Jeff Probst, Entertainer

"I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race"

Thomas Love Peacock, Author

"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people"

Richard McKenna, Writer

"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home"

Georg Solti, Musician

"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind"

Daisaku Ikeda, Writer

"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores"

Barry Humphries, Entertainer

"No man can be stronger than his destiny"

Mary Austin, Writer

"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own"

Mark Victor Hansen, Businessman

"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb"

Mark Strand, Poet

"I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light"

Ang Lee, Director

"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny"

Roh Moo-hyun, Politician

"We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny"

Catherine Booth, Activist

"Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny"

Georges Braque, Artist

"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Destiny is not a 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 Bryant

"If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you"

William Irwin Thompson, Philosopher

"Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day"

Oscar de la Renta, Designer

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