Destiny Quotes

Character is our destiny. (Heraclitus)
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. View quote
Aristotle
Anatomy is destiny. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. View quote
Kofi Annan
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. View quote
Aeschylus
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. View quote
Norman Mailer
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you but one thing I know - the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. View quote
Barack Obama
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. View quote
Winston Churchill
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. View quote
Albert Ellis
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. View quote
Agnes de Mille
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. View quote
Fidel Castro
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. (Harry S. Truman)
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. View quote
Norman Cousins
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. View quote
Marguerite Duras
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. View quote
Henry Miller