Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lin Yutang

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

Les Brown

NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny.

Terry Tempest Williams

What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we feel the blood making its way through our body into our cupped hands, we remember it is our destiny to make change.

Terry Pratchett

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Tennessee Williams

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

Simone de Beauvoir

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours...

Simone de Beauvoir

One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.

Simone Weil

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Richard Branson

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

Swami Vivekananda

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

Tite Kubo

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

Sri Chinmoy

Today I must dive deep within And know what I come To this earth-stage for.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not--will not be forgotten nor neglected.... But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief.... Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

Ruta Sepetys

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

Ray LaMontagne

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Robin Gibb

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Robert M. Pirsig

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Robert Falcon Scott

I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.

Virginia Satir

Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.

Voltaire

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

Voltaire

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

Vladimir Putin

The sooner the Iraqi people are able to take their country's destiny in their own hands and establish their own control over it and its national resources, the sooner the process of pushing the forces of international terrorism out of Iraq will be able to begin. And the sooner the process of consolidating Iraqi society itself will also be able to begin.

Winston Churchill

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

Woodrow Wilson

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

William Shatner

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

William McFee

Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.

William McKinley

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

William James

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

William James

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

Will Ferrell

I guess destiny is not the path given to us but the path we choose for ourselves.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Choice is destiny's soul mate.