Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Johnson

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

Barbara Jordan

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Barbara Jordan

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

Coco Chanel

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Coco Chanel

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Avan Jogia

I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.

Benjamin Graham

By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.

Benjamin Graham

Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.

Brian Aldiss

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Brad Pitt

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

Ayn Rand

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Benjamin Disraeli

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Ben Cross

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is, ‘Which path will you choose?’. This is something only you can decide.

Carl Sandburg

Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

Courtney Love

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

Adolf Hitler

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

Adolf Hitler

...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

Abraham Verghese

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Geography is destiny.

Abraham Lincoln

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

Ann Brashares

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

Andy Andrews

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Andrea Bocelli

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Daniel Pinkwater

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Daniel Quinn

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Clive Owen

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Albert Einstein

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Alfred North Whitehead

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Aldous Huxley

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.