Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Read

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

Esther Hicks

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

Etty Hillesum

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Etty Hillesum

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

Ernest Holmes

The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.

Erin Hunter

You have to stop thinking about Billystorm in that way, right now! You have a different destiny, one that involves the future of the whole Clan. And it is a path that you must walk alone.

Florence Scovel Shinn

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

Ezra Taft Benson

[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread. Thank God he did not see the thread break. He also indicated the important part that this people should yet play in standing for the principles embodied in these sacred documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Ezra Taft Benson

I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is being threatened as never before in our history. I further witness that this land-the Americas-must be protected, its Constitution upheld, for this is a land foreordained to be the Zion of our God. He expects us as members of the Church and bearers of His priesthood to do all we can to preserve our liberty.

Euripides

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.

Francis Marion Crawford

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

George Washington

I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

George Washington

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

Chris Tucker

You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times.

Garth Nix

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Garth Stein

We are the creators of our own destiny,

Frederick Douglass

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Frederick Douglass

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

Fernando Pessoa

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

Fidel Castro

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Henry Miller

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

George Eliot

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Franz Liszt

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

Isabel Allende

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.

Guru Nanak

By the destiny written upon their foreheads, they become truly unattached, and by reflective meditation, they are imbued with Truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Frantz Fanon

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Frantz Fanon

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Jerzy Kosinski

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.