Our Destiny Quotes - Page 2

• Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

  Iris Murdoch

  Inspirational, Destiny, Justified

  Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Sovereignty of Good”, p.77, Routledge

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• You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Destiny, Thinking, Goals Dreams

  Mark Victor Hansen (1989). “Future diary”

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• Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Destiny, Men

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 3, 2017.

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Wisdom, Determination

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• The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Strong, Destiny

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• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

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

  Jean Nidetch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Greatness, Destiny, Return

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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