Destiny Quotes - Page 27

• A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mastery, World, Moments

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• There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

  John Dewey

  Atheism, Unseen, Worship

  John Dewey (1960). “A Common Faith”, p.7, Yale University Press

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• Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian, Animal, Fire

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• We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Believe, Ambition, People

  "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

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• As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and of each man, is that he is condemned to invent what he will be - condemned if he is fearful but blessed if he welcomes the great adventure. We are responsible in the last analysis, not simply for what we are, but for what we will become; and that is a source of either high excitement or distress.

  Paul Kurtz

  Blessed, Adventure, Heart

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Independent, Opportunity, Men

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• What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

  Sean O'Casey

  Struggle, Men, Effort

  Sean O'Casey (1963). “Autobiographies”

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• I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Thinking, Who I Am

  "A Minute With: Billy Ray Cyrus on Miley and his "Hillbilly Heart". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2013.

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• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Europe, Vanity

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• I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.

  T. D. Jakes

  Hurt, Fuel, Bitter

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• We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frownLet no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Philosophy, Men

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• For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Agony, Miracle

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

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• In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. You're constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities , all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny.

  Denise Linn

  Whispering, Coincidence, Moments

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• I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.

  Mark Batterson

  Long, Calling, Want

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• The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Book, Years, Broken

  "Interview: Jeaniene Frost, author of 'The Beautiful Ashes'". Interview with Lea Franczak, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. August 26, 2014.

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• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fate, Past, Littles

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc”, p.89

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• For every rapture there is a price and nothing is sustained forever. The path that destiny takes in the end leads to a balance of payments. No one remains overdrawn forever. Destiny's bank is inexorable, all accounts must balance.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Forever, Balance, Path

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• A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.472, BoD – Books on Demand

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• How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna SWANWICK (1843). “Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller, Translated, with Introductory Remarks, by Anna Swanwick”, p.2

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• Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

  Lydia M. Child

  Battle, Doe, March

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• Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

  William Hazlitt

  Birth Place, Ties, Wish

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84

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• In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all.
  A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Pursuit Of Happiness, Equality

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• To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

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• The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Heaven, Soul

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.197

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• In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brain, Scales, Intellect

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