Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Benjamin Disraeli

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Ben Cross

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is, ‘Which path will you choose?’. This is something only you can decide.

Carl Sandburg

Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

Coco Chanel

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Coco Chanel

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Albert Einstein

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Alfred North Whitehead

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Aldous Huxley

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Albert Einstein

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

Albert Einstein

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

Adolf Hitler

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

Adolf Hitler

...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Alexandra Adornetto

In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.

Abraham Verghese

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Geography is destiny.

Abraham Lincoln

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

Ann Brashares

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

Andy Andrews

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Andrea Bocelli

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Aeschylus

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

Aeschylus

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Aeschylus

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Sonu Nigam

I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.

Aeschylus

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

Aeschylus

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.