The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
~By Huey Newton ~
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 ~
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
~By Bob Marley ~
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
~By Jodie Foster ~
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
~By Marcel Marceau ~
You can be great only if it is your destiny.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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.
~By James Allen ~
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.
~By Andre Maurois ~
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 ~
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.
~By Charles Barkley ~
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.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
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 ~
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
~By Fernando Alonso ~
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
~By Thomas Menino ~
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
~By Jean Claude Duvalier ~
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
~By Albert Camus ~
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.
~By Ang Lee ~
Our history is not our destiny.
~By Alan Cohen ~
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 ~
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 ~
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
~By Waverley Lewis Root ~
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
~By Max Frisch ~
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 ~
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.
~By Peter Hobson ~
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
~By Paul Tillich ~
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
~By Joel Osteen ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
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 ~
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
~By Waverley Lewis Root ~
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
~By Daniel Webster ~
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
~By Thomas Keller ~
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
~By Georges Braque ~
To be a Jew is a destiny.
~By Vicki Baum ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
~By Franz Liszt ~
I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
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.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
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.
~By Audrey Tautou ~
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
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.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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 ~
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 ~
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
Character is destiny.
~By Heraclitus ~
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 ~
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.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
~By Eugene Cernan ~
Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
~By Martin Delany ~
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
~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 ~
And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.
~By Robert Englund ~
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 ~
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 ~
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