Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Freire

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Napoleon Hill

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

Napoleon Hill

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Og Mandino

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Og Mandino

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

Og Mandino

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.

Orison Swett Marden

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Eric Berne

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Eric Bana

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

Johann Sebastian Bach

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

John C. Maxwell

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

John C. Maxwell

Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

Octavia Butler

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

Novak Djokovic

The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

Emile M. Cioran

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. ––The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

Emanuel Ungaro

Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

Ellen Page

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

Simone de Beauvoir

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours...

Simone de Beauvoir

One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.

Simone Weil

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.