Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

Queen Latifah

Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.

Placido Domingo

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

Gustav Mahler

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

John Lyly

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

John Locke

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

John le Carre

Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Joseph Murphy

Every thought is a cause & every condition is an effect. Change your thoughts & you change your destiny.

Lawrence Wright

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Lascelles Abercrombie

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Kwame Nkrumah

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.

Joseph Goebbels

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

Owen Arthur

Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

Julian Huxley

The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

Paul Tillich

Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.

Paul Tillich

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

Paul Tillich

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Paul Tillich

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.

Paul Kurtz

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

Mark Patterson

Your destiny isn't defined. You create it

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 .

Joseph Brodsky

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

Joseph Brodsky

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Nelly

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

John Green

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

Martin Heidegger

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.

Mario Puzo

Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone

Muhammad Iqbal

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.