Destiny Quotes - Page 34

• 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

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Brain, Scales, Intellect

  7 Copy quote

• The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Evil, Fortune

  8 Copy quote

• If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

  Clarence Darrow

  Party, Men, Hair

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.10, Lulu.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

  Pablo Neruda

  Men, Way

  9 Copy quote

• Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

  Rebecca West

  Blow, Names, Life And Death

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.545, Open Road Media

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Poetry, Realization, Responsible

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.177, Penguin UK

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

  Etty Hillesum

  Men, Shapes, Determine

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.258, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Power, Mind, Purpose

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

  318 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

  Fay Weldon

  Believe, Chance, Notion

  4 Copy quote

• There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

  Wendell Phillips

  Crazy, Europe, Stronger

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.51

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

  9 Copy quote

• The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Morning, Food, Cooking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.110, Zillmann Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

  Denzel Washington

  Home, Fate, Waiting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Holy Days

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Yes We Can, Pioneers

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Thinking, Insanity, Madness

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

  Bill Paxton

  Fate, Discipline, Masters

  65 Copy quote

• You can change things, you can make things better.

  Jeff Bridges

  Giver

  "Fictional character: The Giver". "The Giver", www.imdb.com. 2014.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religion, which true policy befriends,
  Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
  Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
  Made the chief party in its own decay,
  And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
  Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.

  Katherine Philips

  Party, Men, Play

  8 Copy quote

• Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

  Zelda Popkin

  Fate, Use, Thrifty

  4 Copy quote

• Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

  Alan Cohen

  Helping Others, People, Contribution

  7 Copy quote