Quotes About Destiny

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

There is no such thing as no chance.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

The genius of the United States of America is Christian in the broadest sense, and its destiny is to remain Christian. This carries no sectarian meaning with it, but relates to a basic principle which differs from other principles in that it provides for liberty with morality, and pledges society to a code of relations based on fundamental Christian conceptions of human rights and duties.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Action, and not knowledge, is man's destiny and duty in this life; and his highest principles, both in philosophy and in religion, have reference to this end.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

The day is not over yet. You may still meet with Providence, who never gets up before noon.

Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is appearance only, for man is a spiritual being destined for eternity, exhaustively accountable to his Creator-Lord.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

You'll end up right where you're supposed to be. Don't be surprised when you get there. Everything you did was a step in that direction. There is no such thing as bad luck.

You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Happy those early days, when IShin'd in my angel-infancy!Before I understood this placeAppointed for my second race.

The fate of a nation was riding that night.

I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.