Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Ayn Rand

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

Brad Pitt

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Ben Cross

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is, ‘Which path will you choose?’. This is something only you can decide.

Carl Sandburg

Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

Calvin Coolidge

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Bryant H. McGill

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Coco Chanel

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Coco Chanel

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.

Billy Childish

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

We've had a good start to our Ivy season. Destiny is in our hands: if we play great we can have great outcomes.

Those who have such pre ordained destiny meet with the True Guru, God Incarnate.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

Those people will have a destiny that is very harsh in hellfire,

Robert Kiyosaki

How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy

Daniel Pinkwater

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Daniel Quinn

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Clive Owen

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Adolf Hitler

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

Adolf Hitler

...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

Abraham Verghese

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Geography is destiny.

Abraham Lincoln

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

Ann Brashares

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

Andy Andrews

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Andrea Bocelli

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Aeschylus

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

Aeschylus

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Aeschylus

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Albert Einstein

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.