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Destiny Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
- Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
- If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
- The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
- If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of…
- The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
- Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the…
- Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
- The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
- The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
- Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
- Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
- As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
More Destiny Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac
- I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams
- Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks
- Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education.… — Charles Barkley
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. — Henry Ward Beecher