Destiny Quotes

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

Family, Children, Country

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Character, Law, Act

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

Life, Happiness, Society

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Generation, Rendezvous

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Self, Sometimes, Often

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden

Thought, Wish, Become

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

Soul, Chance, Believes

Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud

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

Great, Wise, Enough

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

Him, Matter, Accept

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Fool, Crime

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey Newton

Power, Giving, Black

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

Life, Health, Energy

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

God, Simple, Someone

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

Long, Control, Become

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. Truman

Fate, Grow, Deeds

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch

Someone, Control, Else

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

Bad, Management, Lots

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel Castro

Men, Hour, Shape

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley

Education, Government, Help

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

Woman, Everything, Old

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras

God, Him, Alcohol

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois

Character, Act, Create

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham

Money, String, Puppets

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope

Change, Nature, Great

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph Heller

Good, Simple, Bad

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

Faithful, Himself, Muslim

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry A. Kissinger

God, Blessed, Play

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg

Night, Through, Strange

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