Top 1200 Our Destiny Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.

Destiny never changes with money, but sometimes it turns by meeting good people too.

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.

I wanted to be a designer but I guess destiny had other plans for me and I became an actor.

Destiny wasn't on the side of Rajiv Kapoor. Worse actors than him have succeeded in this industry.

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

You have to keep working hard to deliver happiness to customers and you have to control your own destiny.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

It's incredible how passionate people are about having the tools to control their own destiny.

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

Like I say, every child is born with his or her destiny; what he does with it is what matters.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction

Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us lucky enough to spend our days doing something we love, something we're good at, are rich. If you do not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what you do, you fail your talent, your destiny, and your god.

Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny

My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

The higher purpose of #? astrology is not to try to change one's destiny, but to fulfill it through growing in awareness

When a film is made, its release is decided by its destiny. Nothing is bigger than that, not even me.

But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

I think that you cannot have everything in life, and sometimes you just - destiny wants you to take another path.

The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

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

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

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

I believe that every WWE superstar is in charge, 100 percent, of his own destiny.

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

I am the biggest Destiny's Child - Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them - fan in the world.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.