Sayings about Destiny
Often one finds one’s destiny just where one hides to avoid it. ~ Chinese Proverb
A tree falls the way it leans. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. ~ French Proverb
They must stand high who would see their own destiny. ~ Danish Proverbs
Even the stone you trip on is part of your destiny. ~ Japanese Proverbs
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Can I pull down the sun with a forked stick, or prevent it from running its course? ~ New Zealander Proverbs
As people go their own way, destiny goes with them. ~ Tamil Proverbs
New day — new destiny. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny. ~ South African Proverb
Fate and free-will both play an equal role in destinies. ~ Indian Proverbs
You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ French Proverb
Quotations about Destiny
Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate, is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. ~ More about Destiny
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.~ Samuel Beckett
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.~ James Allen
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. ~ John F. Kennedy
Destiny. A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.~ Ambrose Bierce
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. ~ Rollo May
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Each man’s destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck. ~ Gai Eaton
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say “no.” I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. ~ Aleister Crowley
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it. ~ Leo Buscaglia
What God writes on your forehead you will become. ~ The Koran
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~ William Jennings Bryan
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. ~ John Oliver Hobbes
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. ~ Catherine Booth
There can be no exit from manifest destiny. ~ Mick Farren
It appears I am destined for something; I will live. ~ Robert Clive
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. ~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king. ~ Frederick The Great
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen. ~ T. S. Eliot
We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. ~ David Richo
Anatomy is destiny. ~ Sigmund Freud
Destiny is the essence of worldly powers. ~ Edward Counsel
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. ~ Les Brown
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. ~ Henry Miller
No one’s born with their destiny stamped on their forehead … we make the choices to fulfill our destiny. ~ Naomi Judd
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering. ~ Harriet Rosenstein
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.~ Sylvester Stallone
Personality, too, is destiny. ~ Erik H. Erikson
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not. ~ Giacomo Leopardi
The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him. ~ Jan Patocka
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. ~ George Washington
The destiny of man is in his own soul. ~ Herodotus
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~ Kin Hubbard
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. ~ Henry Miller
Man’s ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who’s made the master of his destiny.~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. ~ Anthony Robbins
More than anything else, I believe it’s our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.~ Anthony Robbins
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ~ Tryon Edwards
Youth is often a scoffer at destiny. ~ Edward Counsel
There is just one life for each of us: our own.~ Euripides
Destiny is … the range of formal or structured human possibility within which human freedom is actual. ~ Donald J. Keefe
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. ~ Princess Diana
There’s no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. ~ Han Solo
We write our own destiny; we become what we do. ~ Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. ~ Yiddish Proverb
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~ Francois Muriac
Every day brings forth a new destiny. ~ Edward Counsel
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