Destiny Quotes - page 3

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars. (Octavia Butler)
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. View quote
Charles Reade
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. View quote
Thomas Merton
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him. View quote
Václav Havel
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Riddle of destiny, who can show; What thy short visit meant, or know; What thy errand here below. View quote
Charles Lamb
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. View quote
Steven Erikson
... It was in masking education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. (William Wordsworth)
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny. View quote
Coco Chanel
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. View quote
William Shakespeare
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life... View quote
Joseph Conrad
To be a Jew is a destiny. View quote
Vicki Baum
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. View quote
Abraham Verghese
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb. (Mark Strand)
For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices. View quote
Brandon Mull
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Your first kiss is destiny knocking. View quote
Alice Sebold
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. View quote
Ken Follett