I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.
~By Beyonce Knowles ~
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
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 ~
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.
~By Michael York ~
Anatomy is destiny.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
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 ~
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 destiny of man is in his own soul.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.
~By Peter Hobson ~
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
~By Islom Karimov ~
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
~By Harriet Rosenstein ~
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.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
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 ~
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 ~
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
~By Daniel Webster ~
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 ~
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
~By Jeff Probst ~
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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 ~
Our history is not our destiny.
~By Alan Cohen ~
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 has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
~By Frank Harris ~
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
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.
~By Oscar de la Renta ~
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
~By Franz Liszt ~
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 ~
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
~By Gabrielle Roy ~
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
~By Waverley Lewis Root ~
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 ~
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
~By Huey Newton ~
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
~By Mark Shields ~
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
~By William R. Alger ~
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 ~
Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
~By Martin Delany ~
The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.
~By Ernst Rohm ~
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 ~
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.
~By Mark Victor Hansen ~
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 ~
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
~By Norman Cousins ~
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 ~
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 ~
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
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 ~
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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.
~By Albert Ellis ~
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.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
~By Eugene Cernan ~
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 ~
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 ~
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
~By Georges Braque ~
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
You shape your own destiny.
~By Chet Atkins ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.
~By Emma Bonino ~
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 ~
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.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
~By Henry Rollins ~
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
~By Donald Freed ~
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 ~
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 ~
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
~By Matt Blunt ~
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
~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 ~
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 ~
We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
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 ~
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