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• 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.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Self, Calling

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Intellectual, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• 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

  Borders, Able, Way

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• The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

  Ouida

  Fall, Heart, Hands

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.548, Ouida

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• Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Adventure, Past, Knows

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• Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sports, Alas

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.52

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• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  Jack Welch

  Motivational, Confidence, Life Changing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Eagles, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

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• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

  Norman Cousins

  Failure, Fate, People

  Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Presidential, This Generation, Generations

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fate

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  World, Mystery, Reason

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Cells, Brain

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• We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

  Les Brown

  Success, Dream, Determination

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  I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Change, Philosophy

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  R. D. Laing

  Fate, Diversity, Violence

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.

  Blair Underwood

  Fate, People, Luck

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• Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

  Marcel Marceau

  Plot, Opera, Mood

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• [Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Puppets, Strings, Sardonic

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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• We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Queens, Heart, Agents

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.300

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• We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

  William McKinley

  Fate, California, Needs

  William McKinley's remarks to personal secretary George Cortelyou, 1898.

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• God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

  Norman Mailer

  Ambition, Fate, Suffering

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Fear, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.84, Penguin

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• The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

  Polykarp Kusch

  World, Our Society, Importance

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• There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Swag, Sorrow, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.88, tredition

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