Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stuart Mill

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

John Ralston Saul

The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

James K. Polk

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

James Howard Kunstler

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

James Redfield

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies.

Libba Bray

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

Friedrich Schiller

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

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.

Henry Rollins

You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Helen Hayes

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

Henry Hazlitt

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Mahatma Gandhi

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Manly Hall

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

John C. Maxwell

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Jack Welch

Control your destiny or somebody will.

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.

Jacques Monod

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Friedrich Schiller

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Friedrich Schiller

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Frederick Soddy

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.