Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Delany

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

Martin Buber

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

Pope John Paul II

Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who holds in His Hands the destiny of this passing world... And this Someone is Love- Love that became Man, Love crucified and risen, Love unceasingly present among men. It is Eucharistic Love.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny

Erik Erikson

Personality, too, is destiny.

Emma Goldman

The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

John Henrik Clarke

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

John Eldredge

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

John O'Donohue

So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced.

John O'Donohue

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.

John O'Donohue

When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than do.

John Dewey

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

Larry King

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

Lady Gaga

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

Lady Gaga

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

Lady Gaga

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

Lady Gaga

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

Lewis Carroll

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

Joseph Campbell

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

Joseph Campbell

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

Joseph Goebbels

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

Lawrence Wright

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Lascelles Abercrombie

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Kwame Nkrumah

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Gayle Forman

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

Lyndon B. Johnson

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

Ludovico Ariosto

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Ludovico Ariosto

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

Malcolm Forbes

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.