Our Destiny Quotes

• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.242, Best Books on

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• Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Crush, Fate, Destiny

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Sports

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Spring, Destiny

  Early Dramas The Death of Wallenstein Act II, Scene III

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• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Fate

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

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• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

  Henry Miller

  Leadership, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  Jean Nidetch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Struggle

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Destiny, Thinking

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• Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Destiny, Law, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Our history is not our destiny.

  Alan Cohen

  Future, Destiny

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eye, Reality, Destiny

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• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Inspiration, Fate

  Markings (1964)

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• Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

  Paul Tsongas

  Greatness, Destiny, Return

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• It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

  Gene Cernan

  Fate, Destiny, Space

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• No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

  Francois Mauriac

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

  David Levien

  Running, Destiny, Who We Are

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• Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Destiny, Your Destiny, Habitual

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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