Top 1200 Destiny Quotes & Sayings

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.

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

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't be late." I brushed some hair out of my eyes. Is that a movie quote? Or is it an actual date? I don't remember destiny asking me. I never even gave destiny my phone number.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

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.

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.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

We must realize that our destiny is strongly linked to the destiny of the poorest on this planet.

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

I believe a lot in destiny, and if destiny has it, then I will be seen in films.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

Can't fight destiny. It's my destiny to be a world champion.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.

Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!

Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

I never thought I would debut in a Telugu film; it was my destiny to take up a film that, incidentally, was about destiny.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

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

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. We need to really understand that their destiny and our destiny, Africa's destiny, etc., are all completely tied in. The argument for getting to know your neighbors is very compelling.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.