Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonu Nigam

I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.

Aeschylus

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

Aeschylus

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

One who obtains the Sublime Essence of the Lord is satisfied and fulfilled. One who obtains this Flavor of the Lord does not waver. One who has this destiny written on his forehead obtains the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

James Woods

The bottom line is to be in 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?

Paul McGinley

Maybe fate and destiny is on my side,

Now that we've done all this, our destiny is in our hands. It's up to us to perform. This new structure will help us better execute our strategy.

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Bryant H. McGill

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Cesar Chavez

This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We shall do it without violence because it is our destiny. To the growers and to all who oppose us, we say the words of Benito Juarez: `Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace.'

Alain Badiou

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Alain de Botton

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

Charles J. Shields

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

Charles Kettering

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Charles A. Beard

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Bruce Jenner

A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes after it with carefully calculated goals and no-holds-barred action. A spectator feels that his or her life is not their own. They let others dictate their destiny. They become victims of life instead of masters of it.

Eckhart Tolle

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

Elie Wiesel

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

Elie Wiesel

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Albert Camus

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

Albert Camus

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

Annie Dillard

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

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.

Amy Davis

Some people are just destined to be together. That's just the way it is.