Destiny Quotes - Page 34

• The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

  Aeschylus

  God, Gone, Towns

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• Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Pain, Past

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• Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Generations, Links, Individual

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friday, Rights, Ideas

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Death, Glory

  "Character: Cornélie". "La Mort de Pompée" by Pierre Corneille , act III, scene iv, 1642.

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• My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

  Richard Wagner

  Work, Solitude, Life Is

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• Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.

  Virginia Satir

  Goal, People, Decision

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  War, Ambition, Men

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Young Generation, People

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.800, Adolf Hitler

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• Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

  Paul Schrader

  One Direction, Choices, Violence

  "Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

  Joyce Cary

  Greatness, Symphony, Worry

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, America, People

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Men, Self

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• The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.

  Edward Boyden

  Motivational, Play, World

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• New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

  Agnes Smedley

  New York, Hopeful, Ignorant

  Agnes Smedley (2011). “Daughter of Earth”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

  Alfred Doblin

  Fate, Greek, Enemy

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• Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

  Martin Delany

  People, Desire, Events

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• That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

  Beth Henley

  Giving, Smoking, Want

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• Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

  Herbert Read

  Wise, Art, Fall

  Herbert Read (2002). “To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• Winning is in your DNA. The most high God breathed His life into you. You've got what it takes. This is your time. This is your moment. Shake off doubts, shake off fear and insecurity, and get ready for favor, get ready for increase, get ready for the fullness of your destiny. You can, you will!!

  Joel Osteen

  Winning, Dna, Insecurity

  Joel Osteen (2014). “You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

  Charles M. Blow

  Determination, Leader, World

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• We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Blood, Humanity

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 15), 1952.

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• I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

  Sterling K. Brown

  Past, Development, Literature

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• I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Sleep, Motherhood

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About "Room". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves. . .

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Race, Ideas, People

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