| Author |
Quotes |
| Agnes DeMille | No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. |
| Albert Einstein | Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. |
| Alexander the Great | Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. |
| Alexis Carrel | To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us |
| Alfred A Montapert | Mans ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures |
| 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 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. |
| Carl Schurz | Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. |
| David Seabury | Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. |
| French Proverb | One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. |
| Heraclitus of Ephesus | Character is fate. |
| Homer | No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. |
| Homer | All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread. |
| James Russell Lowell | The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever. |
| Jean Nidetch | It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. |
| John F Kennedy | Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. |
| John Oliver Hobbes | Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny. |
| John Oliver Hobbes | Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. |
| Joseph Addison | My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. |
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