At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.
~By Paul Martin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
~By Huey Newton ~
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 ~
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
~By Kofi Annan ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
~By Thomas Merton ~
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
~By Islom Karimov ~
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
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 ~
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 ~
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
~By Ferdowsi ~
Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
~By Henry Miller ~
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Anatomy is destiny.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
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 ~
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
~By Bobby Seale ~
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 ~
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~By Jean Nidetch ~
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 ~
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 ~
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our history is not our destiny.
~By Alan Cohen ~
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
~By William R. Alger ~
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 ~
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
~By John Heywood ~
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 is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
~By Waverley Lewis Root ~
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.
~By Beyonce Knowles ~
Character is destiny.
~By Heraclitus ~
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
~By Walid Jumblatt ~
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
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 ~
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 ~
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
~By William McKinley ~
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 ~
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
~By Mary Austin ~
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
~By Joel Osteen ~
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 ~
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
~By Barry Humphries ~
Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
~By Donald Freed ~
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
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 ~
The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.
~By Ernst Rohm ~
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 ~
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
~By Fidel Castro ~
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 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 ~
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
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 ~
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
~By Bob Marley ~
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 ~
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
~By Franz Liszt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
~By Jeff Probst ~
Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
~By Martin Delany ~
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
~By Frantz Fanon ~
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
~By Jean Claude Duvalier ~
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 ~
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
~By Frank Harris ~
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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