Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Branson

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

Swami Vivekananda

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

Tite Kubo

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Sean Parker

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

Lin Yutang

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

Les Brown

NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny.

Terry Tempest Williams

What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we feel the blood making its way through our body into our cupped hands, we remember it is our destiny to make change.

Terry Pratchett

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Lewis Mumford

Trend is not destiny.

Leslie Fiedler

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

Kurt Huber

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

Marcus Aurelius

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Marcus Aurelius

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Pawan Kalyan

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

Rabindranath Tagore

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

Queen Latifah

Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.

Placido Domingo

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

Josiah Warren

Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

Kofi Annan

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Emmet Fox

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

James Connolly

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.

Jacques Monod

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Henry Rollins

You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Helen Hayes

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

Henry Hazlitt

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.