If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
Miguel de Unamuno

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

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
William Irwin Thompson

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
Benjamin Spock

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
Alija Izetbegovic

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

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

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Tony Robbins

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

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

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Waverley Lewis Root

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
Jean Claude Duvalier

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
Muhammad Iqbal

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
Eugene Cernan

Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.
King Hussein I

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.
Emma Bonino

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
Walid Jumblatt

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Daniel Webster