Destiny Quotes

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.

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

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

I think that by going on the path that I am, my destiny will just come to me.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.