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Quotes About Destiny

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
~ Norman Borlaug
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.
~ Bill Burr
Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.
~ William McKinley
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
~ Franz Liszt
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.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
~ Oscar Wilde
The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
~ John Adams
The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.
~ Unknown
If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
~ Ettore Sottsass
What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.
~ Joel Osteen
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
~ Pawan Kalyan
Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
~ Alice Sebold
No one can escape his destiny.
~ Plato
Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
~ Florence Nightingale
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
~ Andre Maurois
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
~ C. S. Lewis
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
~ Georges Braque
Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.
~ Herbert Read
Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.
~ Mariane Pearl
What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.
~ Peter J. Daniels