Destiny Quotes
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The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.
William McKinley
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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
Nicole Kidman
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If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.
William Graham Sumner
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I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.
Chang-Rae Lee
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Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.
Russell M. Nelson
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The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
Martin Heidegger
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It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Anthony Robbins
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
Nick Saban
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It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
Coco Chanel
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I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
George Washington
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That’s the only way you are gonna realize your life’s purpose, your highest, most high destiny. And that’s the kinda world we’re building.
Nicholas Petricca
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There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
George Washington
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
Lois McMaster
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If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.
Hermann Hesse
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I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.
Tommy Hilfiger
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Take destiny in your own hands.
Chanda Kochhar
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel
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So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Michael York
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
Cecile de France
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Every passion has its destiny.
Billy Mills
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...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.
Ettore Sottsass