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Quotes About Destiny

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
~ Margaret Atwood
Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.
~ Frederick Lenz
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Which ticket will you buy?
~ John E. Mack
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
~ John Eldredge
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~ John F. Kennedy
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny
~ John F. Kennedy
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country… Life is unfair.
~ John F. Kennedy
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
~ John F. Kennedy
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
~ John F. Kennedy
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~ John F. Kennedy
There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.
~ John Fante
There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. It was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.
~ John Fante
There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. It was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for them to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.
~ John Fante
You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.
~ John Fante
The last officer named was Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island; a man of limited education and military experience limited to two years of peacetime militia duty, he nevertheless was destined to be the best of the lot.27
~ John Ferling
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
~ John Fletcher
The Doomed Spaceman ... Weightless, helpless, I'm locked on a track I can't reverse; For once glimpse of home, I would give back the universe. Constellation by constellation, I journey through. My destination Nowhere but death. Ted Walker
~ John Foster
Those whom the fates don't lead they finally drag
~ John Foxe