Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Patterson

Your destiny isn't defined. You create it

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You have all the influence you choose to have.

Craig Biggio

All these games could've went the other way. I think it was more destiny for these guys than it was for us.

James Russell Lowell

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

James Russell Lowell

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

James Redfield

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies.

Libba Bray

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

Friedrich Schiller

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Friedrich Schiller

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Frederick Soddy

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

George Farquhar

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

Luis Bunuel

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Mahatma Gandhi

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

John C. Maxwell

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Jack Welch

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Harvey Mackay

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

George Arnold

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

Philip Russell

The enormity of the loss that this family has sustained and the reversal of their destiny over the past three years is incomprehensible and heartbreaking.

Max Weber

It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar lack of perspective toward men.

Paddy Ashdown

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

Plato

No one can escape his destiny.