Destiny Quotes
2702 quotes by 1620 authors
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
— Aristotle
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the…
— Ansel Adams
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part…
— Honore de Balzac
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
— Dennis Banks
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can…
— Charles Barkley
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of…
— Conrad Black
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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
— Aeschylus
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Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
— Andrea Bocelli
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You can be great only if it is your destiny.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
— Norman Borlaug
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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