Destiny Quotes - Page 23

• It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

  Cesare Pavese

  Fate, Happened, Happens

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.345, Routledge

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• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fate, Sea, Rivers

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.497, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

  George Washington

  Effort, Our Actions, Human Nature

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1769). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.288

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• As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life Changing, Clothes, Body

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 68, 1982.

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• A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Pain, Chains That Bind, Joy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Men, Deep Water, Depth

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.

  Michael Port

  People, Serving Others, Express Yourself

  Michael Port (2006). “Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling”, p.94, John Wiley & Sons

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• Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.

  Charles Darwin

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

  George Ade

  Work, Mean, Men

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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• The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

  George Arnold

  Glasses, Life Is, Fragments

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.45

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• I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful

  Mariah Carey

  Sweet, Grateful, Heaven

  Song: Vision Of Love

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• I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

  Brian Aldiss

  Fiction, Fit, Humans

  "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1998.

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• No one can escape his destiny.

  Plato

  Gorgias, 512e (translated byWR M Lamb,1967).

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• When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

  Mary Renault

  Our Destiny

  "The Persian Boy". Book by Mary Renault, p. 26, 1972.

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• I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Government, Together Again

  "Blair sets sights on Downing Street". The Times, July 22, 1994.

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• The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity - when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all - encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.

  Meher Baba

  Mean, Views, Work Out

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

  Huston Smith

  Church, World, Helping

  Huston Smith (1959). “The Religions of Man”

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• We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cute, Children, Men

  "Keeping Scientology Working". Scientology Policy Letter, February 07, 1965.

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• For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Mind, Faces

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• All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.

  Roger Scruton

  Fighting, Law, People

  "Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.

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• Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.

  Benjamin Graham

  Milk And Honey, Years, Land

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part I, Chapter I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks, p. 4, 1937.

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• Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.

  Dora Russell

  Children, War, Believe

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, ch. v, p. 205, 1927.

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• Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

  Hans Morgenthau

  United States, Libertarian, Term

  Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”

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• We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Giving, Justice

  Speech at the opening ceremony of the State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, July 1, 1948.

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• No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

  Naomi Judd

  Choices, Born, Foreheads

  Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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