Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Graham

By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave.

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.

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.

Pink

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

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.

Paula White

By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!

Paula White

Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!

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.

Tennessee Williams

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

Terence McKenna

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

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?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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.