destiny quotes

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

— Thomas Merton

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”

— Winston Churchill

“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.”

“Character is destiny.”

“Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

— Fidel Castro

“Anatomy is destiny.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.”

— Honore de Balzac

“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. ”

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

— Henry Miller

“Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.”

— Henry Miller

“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”

— Joel Osteen

“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”

— Colin Powell

“If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.”

— Mitt Romney

“If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.”

— Mitt Romney

“Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.”

— Mitt Romney

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

— Tony Robbins

“I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.”

— Henry Rollins

“Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.”

— Princess Diana

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.”

— Steven Spielberg

“God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.”

— Charles Stanley

“When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.”

— Charles Stanley

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”

— Ambrose Bierce

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