Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Welch

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Harvey Mackay

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

George Arnold

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

Philip Russell

The enormity of the loss that this family has sustained and the reversal of their destiny over the past three years is incomprehensible and heartbreaking.

James Madison

Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny

Erik Erikson

Personality, too, is destiny.

Emma Goldman

The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

Michelle Moran

I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.

Michael Pena

What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

John Muir

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

John the Apostle

Destiny is something people invented... because they can't stand the fact that everything that happens is the result of their choice.

Mark Patterson

Your destiny isn't defined. You create it

Slash

You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

Smiley Blanton

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Theodore Roosevelt

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

Theodore Roosevelt

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

Theodor Herzl

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

Margaret Sanger

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Margaret Fuller

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

Marcus Garvey

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

Marcus Garvey

Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others, but when of our own initiative we strike out to build industries, governments, and ultimately empires, then and only then will we as a race prove to our creator and to man in general that we are fit to survive and capable of shaping our own destiny.

Ravi Zacharias

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?

Ravi Zacharias

I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.

Ray Bradbury

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

Eric Berne

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Eric Bana

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

Emmet Fox

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

James Connolly

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.