Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lydia M. Child

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

Lucretia Mott

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Michael York

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

Mason Cooley

What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

Mason Cooley

The older we become, the more certain our future.

Michael Gove

I think that what we have heard from the Remain campaign throughout this whole referendum have been dire warnings of the terrible consequences of the British people just taking control of our own destiny.And, the truth is, if we vote to Leave we will be in an economically stronger position. We will be able to take back some of the money that we currently give to the European Union and we can invest it in our priorities.

Mencius

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

Michio Kaku

‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

Michael J. Fox

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

Mark Ruffalo

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.

Teresa Medeiros

Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

Theodore Roosevelt

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

Theodore Roosevelt

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

Theodor Herzl

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

Margaret Sanger

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Margaret Fuller

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

Marcus Garvey

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

Marcus Garvey

Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others, but when of our own initiative we strike out to build industries, governments, and ultimately empires, then and only then will we as a race prove to our creator and to man in general that we are fit to survive and capable of shaping our own destiny.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Leon Trotsky

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

Lauren Oliver

But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

Lajos Kossuth

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

Lafcadio Hearn

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Paul Schrader

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

Oscar Wilde

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

Slash

You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

Smiley Blanton

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

John Green

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

Ozzy Osbourne

Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.

Ovid

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

I knew we had to win our game. You always want to have destiny in your own hands, so we're really happy with that.

Angela Bassett

If you have a big voice, so be it. But if you do things quietly, so be it. It can be done. I think it was a destiny for her life.