Destiny Quotes

2702 Destiny quotes by 1514 unique authors

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past — Pierre Corneille
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. — Ken Follett
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that… — George Leigh Mallory
Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us… — George Lois
Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today.… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is being threatened as… — Ezra Taft Benson
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. — H.G. Wells
I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we… — Susan Hill
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may… — John Holdren
Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to… — Martin Luther
My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control… — Saul Alinsky
It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which… — Hafez
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is… — Richard M. Weaver
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the… — Ilya Ehrenburg
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. — Franz Liszt
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his… — Twyla Tharp
It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny. — Thomas S. Monson
Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions… — Thomas S. Monson
It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring… — Forrest Church
But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute… — Paul Tillich
The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to… — Octavia Butler
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory. — Miguel de Unamuno

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