Destiny Quotes

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

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

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

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

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

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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.

Anatomy is destiny.

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.