Quotes on Destiny
James Allen: You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Jean Nidetch: It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.
Submitted by Teri Garrison: Man made… by divine design.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller: There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Anna Hoxie: The past is like a river flowing out of sight; the future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller: There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Earl Nightingale: Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Jack Welch: Control your destiny or somebody else will.
Orison Swett Marden: The Creator has not given you a longing to do what you have no ability to do.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Tyron Edwards: Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Danish Proverb: A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
Ronald Reagan: You and I have a rendevous with destiny.
John F. Kennedy: Our problems are man-made; therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Agnes DeMille: No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Nelson Mandela as submitted by Eileen Kelley: You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as you let your own light shine, you unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As you are liberated from your own fear, your presence automatically liberates others.
William Jennings Bryan: Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
Charles de Gaulle: For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Horace: Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.
Joseph Conrad: The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.
Mark Twain: Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
William Jennings Bryan: Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
Agnes De Mille: No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Carl Schurz: Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Frank McKinney Hubbard: Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Benjamin Disraeli: We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Anthony Robbins: It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Ursula K. Le Guin: It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Eleanor Roosevelt: The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
Edward O. Sisson: GOOD is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.
Andre Maurois: If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Henry Miller: Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Mildred Taylor: We have no choice of what colour we’re born or who our parents are or whether we’re rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we’re here.
Thomas Browne: We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
Goethe: Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Heraclitus: Character is destiny.
Don Quixote: One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.
Albert Einstein: As punishment for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself.
Jim Rohn: Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Wayne Oates: Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.
Unknown Author: What’s meant to be will find a way.
Henry Ward Beecher: It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Anthony Robbins: It’ in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
William Shakespeare: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
John Adams: There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Robert Browning: The best is yet to be.
Albert Schweitzer: I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Samuel Johnson: Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Unknown Author: Do not worry about the future for it is not yet come. Live each day in the present and make it beautiful.
Kim Hubbard: Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
John Whittier: For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!”
Author unknown: Thoughts become words. Words become actions. Actions become habits. Habits become character. And character becomes your destiny.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
George Bernard Shaw: We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
William Jennings Bryan: Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is thing to be achieved.
Arnold H. Glasgow: Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
Pearl Bailey: There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God given talent, you just touch up once in a while.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
Vincent Van Gogh: Your profession is not what brings home your pay check. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh: Your profession is not what brings home your pay check. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Harvey Mackay: Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
James Allen: You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Winston Churchill: It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Horace Mann: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
Albert Einstein: There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
