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Quotes About Destiny

Character makes its own destiny.
~ Rosa Campbell Praed
There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
~ Francois Hollande
Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.
~ Glenn Beck
To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.
~ Laurence Gartel
It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of 'destiny,' you not only change its 'natural laws' but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.
~ Hannah Arendt
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
~ John Donne
Fate is nonawareness.
~ Jan Kott
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
~ Poul Anderson
A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
~ Unknown
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.
~ Don DeLillo
We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.
~ Frederick Lenz
To be a Jew is a destiny
~ Vicki Baum
Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.
~ Kumar Pallana
I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.
~ David Boreanaz
Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with.
~ Alberto Villoldo
Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!
~ Thomas Carlyle
Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision
~ Tony Robbins
Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.
~ Lin Yutang
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.
~ Pierre Corneille