Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Manly Hall

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

John C. Maxwell

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

James Howard Kunstler

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

James Russell Lowell

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

James Redfield

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies.

Libba Bray

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

Friedrich Schiller

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Friedrich Schiller

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Frederick Soddy

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

George Farquhar

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

Luis Bunuel

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Luis Gonzalez

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

John Cheever

The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.

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.

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.

Napoleon Hill

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