There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
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.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
~By Islom Karimov ~
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
~By Princess Diana ~
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
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.
~By Warren Farrell ~
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~By Jean Nidetch ~
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
~By Albert Camus ~
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.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
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.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
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.
~By Tavis Smiley ~
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.
~By Richard McKenna ~
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
~By Colin Powell ~
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
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.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
~By Kwame Nkrumah ~
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
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.
~By Norman Mailer ~
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.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
~By Paul Tillich ~
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
~By Matt Blunt ~
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
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.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
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.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
~By Martin Delany ~
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.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
~By Jodie Foster ~
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.
~By Georg Solti ~
Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.
~By Emma Bonino ~
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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.
~By Henry Miller ~
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.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
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.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
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.
~By David Seabury ~
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
~By Mark Shields ~
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
~By Barry Humphries ~
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
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.
~By William Jennings Bryant ~
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
~By Frank Harris ~
You shape your own destiny.
~By Chet Atkins ~
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
~By Jack Welch ~
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
~By Thomas Keller ~
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.
~By Kurt Huber ~
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.
~By Octavia Butler ~
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.
~By Frantz Fanon ~
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.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
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.
~By Bill Frist ~
We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
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.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
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.
~By King Hussein I ~
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.
~By Donna Rice ~
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
~By Waverley Lewis Root ~
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
~By Fidel Castro ~
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.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.
~By Michael York ~
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
~By Dennis Banks ~
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!
~By Jerry Brown ~
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
~By Barney Oliver ~
At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
You can be great only if it is your destiny.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
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.
~By Denis Waitley ~
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
~By Herodotus ~
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
~By Ferdowsi ~
Our history is not our destiny.
~By Alan Cohen ~
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.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
~By Eugene Cernan ~
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.
~By Courtney Love ~
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.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.
~By Chris Brown ~
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.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
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.
~By Edwin Markham ~
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
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.
~By Joseph Heller ~
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