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 ~
We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny. ~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. ~By Paul Tillich ~
We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny. ~By Theodor Herzl ~
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 ~
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier. ~By Gustav Mahler ~
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. ~By R. D. Laing ~
No man can be stronger than his destiny. ~By Mary Austin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 destiny of man is in his own soul. ~By Herodotus ~
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. ~By Aeschylus ~
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad. ~By Placido Domingo ~
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 ~
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 ~
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. ~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
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's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation. ~By Eugene Cernan ~
One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey. ~By Peter Hobson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~By Tony Snow ~
The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny. ~By Ernst Rohm ~
To be a Jew is a destiny. ~By Vicki Baum ~
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 ~
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 ~
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. ~By Matt Blunt ~
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. ~By William R. Alger ~
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 ~
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. ~By Waverley Lewis Root ~
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering. ~By Harriet Rosenstein ~
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 ~
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. ~By Fidel Castro ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. ~By Ignazio Silone ~
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny. ~By Jeff Probst ~
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. ~By Agnes de Mille ~
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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 ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. ~By Harry S. Truman ~
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 ~
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 ~
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. ~By Faye Dunaway ~
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 ~
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 ~
Character is destiny. ~By Heraclitus ~
So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom. ~By Al Goldstein ~
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb. ~By Mark Strand ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that. ~By Kelly Rowland ~
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. ~By Ken Follett ~
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 ~
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. ~By Dennis Banks ~
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 ~
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ~By William Shakespeare ~
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will. ~By Frank Harris ~
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. ~By Jean Nidetch ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every people should be originators of their own destiny. ~By Martin Delany ~
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 ~
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny. ~By Donald Freed ~
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. ~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
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 ~
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 ~
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny? ~By Ferdowsi ~
The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others. ~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
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 ~
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
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 Charles Reade ~
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 ~
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. ~By Thomas Menino ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny. ~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you. ~By Darren L. Johnson ~
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. ~By Andre Malraux ~
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. ~By Georges Braque ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can be great only if it is your destiny. ~By Andrea Bocelli ~
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns. ~By Mark Shields ~
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 ~
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 ~
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. ~By Albert Camus ~
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. ~By William Irwin Thompson ~
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