Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

Paulo Coelho

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

Paulo Coelho

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.

Maynard Webb

It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your happy destiny is unavoidable.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

John Glenn

A lot of people ask...why a man is willing to risk... Well, we've got to do it. We're going into an age of exploration that will be bigger than anything the world has ever seen... If a man faces up to the (unknown) and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.

John F. Kennedy

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

John F. Kennedy

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

Jonathan Larson

There's only now, there's only here Give in to love, or live in fear No other path No other way No day but today

Jonathan Larson

No other road, no other way, no day but today.

Jonathan Evison

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Rachel Caine

It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.

Paulo Coelho

When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.

Paulo Coelho

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

Paulo Coelho

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

Paulo Coelho

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

Polykarp Kusch

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

Naveen Jain

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Julian Huxley

The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

Paul Tillich

Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.

Paul Tillich

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

Paul Tillich

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Paul Tillich

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.

Paul Kurtz

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Blood is not destiny.

Paramahansa Yogananda

All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.

Owen Wister

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Ovid

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Mary McLeod Bethune

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.