To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.
Tom Tancredo

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Zhang Yimou

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
Placido Domingo

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
Rita Hayworth

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

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.
Theodor Herzl

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
Alfred Rosenberg

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
Tony Snow

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
Barbara Jordan

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
Orison Swett Marden

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.
Moo-hyum Roh

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
William McKinley

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
John Heywood

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

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
William R. Alger

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
Thomas Keller