Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Puzo

Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone

John Green

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

Ozzy Osbourne

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.

Ovid

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

Martha Beck

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

Martha Beck

The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .

Michael York

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.

Marianne Williamson

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

George Washington

I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

George Washington

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Neale Donald Walsch

Your happy destiny is unavoidable.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

Miguel Cotto

Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

Joseph Addison

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

Jose Saramago

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

Jose Bergamin

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

John C. Maxwell

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

John C. Maxwell

Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.

Novak Djokovic

The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

Emile M. Cioran

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. ––The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

Emanuel Ungaro

Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

Ellen Page

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

Craig Biggio

All these games could've went the other way. I think it was more destiny for these guys than it was for us.

Henry Ford

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

Henry Ford

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Henry James

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

Johann Sebastian Bach

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.