Destiny Quotes

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

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.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

Fate keeps on happening.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.

Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me But some things are meant to be Coincidence, circumstance Or something bigger thats just out of our hands But some things are meant to be

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.