Quotes About Destiny

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Today I must dive deep within And know what I come To this earth-stage for.

It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Books have their destinies.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Fate is a great accident.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.