Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard G. Scott

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

Trai Byers

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Brian Weiss

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

Bobby Sands

There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.

Bob Dylan

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

Bob Dylan

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

Bob Dylan

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

Bob Dylan

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

Billy Childish

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

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.

Bill Johnson

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

Edith Wharton

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

David Hume

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

Baroness Orczy

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

Audre Lorde

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

Edwin Markham

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Benjamin Franklin

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Arthur Golden

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

Anton Chekhov

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

Aung San Suu Kyi

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

Daniel Goleman

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not 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.