Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Douglass

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

Fernando Pessoa

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

Ezra Taft Benson

[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread. Thank God he did not see the thread break. He also indicated the important part that this people should yet play in standing for the principles embodied in these sacred documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Ezra Taft Benson

I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is being threatened as never before in our history. I further witness that this land-the Americas-must be protected, its Constitution upheld, for this is a land foreordained to be the Zion of our God. He expects us as members of the Church and bearers of His priesthood to do all we can to preserve our liberty.

Euripides

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.

Francis Marion Crawford

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Ernest Holmes

The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.

Erin Hunter

You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.

Florence Scovel Shinn

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

Fidel Castro

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Henry Miller

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

George Eliot

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Greg Norman

Destiny wasn't going to let me win that golf tournament. It wasn't going to happen.

Maurice Ager

Destiny isn't really in our hands anymore. All we can do is win our games and hope they lose. We're not going to let this destroy our whole season.

Albert Einstein

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Our destiny is still in our own hands.

Derrick Coleman

Our destiny is sort of in our own hands. We need to get back on track. This is really the most important game of our season because we need to get back on track.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny

George Patton

A man must know his destiny if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

Voltaire

Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god.

Euripides

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Euripides

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

Ernest Becker

If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

Carolyn Heilbrun

As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

Kumar Pallana

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.

Frank Herbert

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Guru Nanak

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

H. G. Wells

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Jean Baudrillard

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.