Top 100 Our Destiny Quotes
#1. Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.
Glen Cook
#3. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Richard Bach
#4. We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.
Sorin Cerin
#5. How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?
Simone De Beauvoir
#7. When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.
Mason Cooley
#8. We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.
Don Henley
#9. You know ... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.
Jessi Kirby
#10. We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Catherine Booth
#11. We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.
David Richo
#12. We deny our destiny because it's leading us toward happiness, and all we want is security.
Paulo Coelho
#13. We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.
Anne Frank
#14. A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#15. This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
Tavis Smiley
#16. Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.
Nelson Mandela
#17. I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Now that you're here, now that they know you exist, you'll never be free again. Ever. We're prisoners to our books, our fates planned long before we were born. You're no different than us. Fight your fate all you want, but deep down you know it's true.
Angela Parkhurst
#20. For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.
Homer
#21. [I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
Richard M. Weaver
#24. If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.
John Henrik Clarke
#26. Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny".
P. J. Peters
#27. As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
T. B. Joshua
#28. sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life
Sadashivan Nair
#29. The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.
Peter Garrett
#30. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.
Boniface Kamau Zablon
#31. For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny - but how we relate to what happens.
Lama Surya Das
#32. We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.
Beth Moore Jones
#33. There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#34. I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.
Attia Hosain
#35. Spirits bring contentment for a time carry us closer to the sacred moving through bitterness our yearning to hold on to moments of ecstasy where we imagine we hear clearly destiny calling
Bell Hooks
#36. Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense.
Nikki Rowe
#37. There is nothing in our constitutional democracy that accepts that two of the richest people in the world can control our destiny.
Jane Mayer
#38. If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#39. We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny
Jacob Bronowski
#40. Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.
Alberto Villoldo
#41. Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
Julian Barnes
#42. The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to ... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
Paulo Coelho
#43. What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still, small voice inside our heads. At last we find the courage to identify the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along was our passion, our calling, our destiny.
Steven Pressfield
#44. If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.
Anthony Horowitz
#45. Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#46. Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#47. All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.
Rick Riordan
#48. We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.
David A. Bednar
#49. In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.
Mandy Hale
#50. I have come to understand that it is far preferable to know that we are living our own destiny, a destiny which was authored by God, our Father.
Robert Bernecker
#51. Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with the future of all our children-girls and boys alike-in the palm of our hands?
Greg Mortenson
#52. There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. that a lot of what happens in our lives is predetermined and that the only way forward is to accept what has happened and to move on. Who knew, perhaps what destiny had in store would be better than what one is grieving over now.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#54. More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.
Adolf Hitler
#55. All our life," William James told us in the prologue, "so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be."9.29
Charles Duhigg
#56. Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY!
Maliheh Sadat Razavi
#57. Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
Marianne Williamson
#58. Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
John F. Kennedy
#59. 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.
George Santayana
#60. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R.D. Laing
#61. Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.
Nathaniel Branden
#62. Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
Julia Cameron
#63. We create our own destiny, but notwithstanding an occasional trip down the wrong path. The key is realizing when it's the wrong path and having the courage to do a little backtracking until you are back on the road to the life you were meant to live.
Books
#64. Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.
Tim Walz
#65. Is there life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup,
We hug our little destiny again.
Seamus Heaney
#66. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.
Pico Iyer
#67. We are the authors of our own destiny; and being the authors, we are ultimately, perhaps frighteningly, free.
Santideva
#68. Once we repossess a sense of our own holiness, we will recover the sense of the holiness of the world ... Only in this way will we once again become aware that our destiny and the destiny of nature are one and the same.
Philip Sherrard
#69. Free will. It sucks because it means we're responsible for our actions. There is no destiny, just difficult decisions.
Shannon Delany
#70. I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.
Tony Blair
#71. So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.
Melissa Hart
#72. Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. We are now becoming more aware of our links to the universe and are reaching out to the universe for knowledge. We are evolving from earth creatures to star creatures. Our minds now explore the worlds beyond, and we sense a destiny beyond this planet.
Douglas Cardinal
#74. We are individually responsible for our own happiness and destiny
Margo Vader
#75. Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#76. The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership
so the United States of America will continue to lead
George W. Bush
#77. The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny
Tryon Edwards
#78. Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.
Thomas S. Monson
#79. My belief that God is love, that love is everything
our true destiny
sustains me.
Bell Hooks
#80. The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it. Our very dissatisfaction with our weaknesses and struggles points to the reality that continuing to live in them is not our destiny.
Stasi Eldredge
#81. The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
Jeanette Winterson
#82. Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
Iris Murdoch
#84. All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
Glenn Beck
#85. The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us. We are all of the same family, though destiny has assigned us to different roles: in our relationship with animals, we should regard them as different, not inferior.
Dennis Bardens
#86. We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.
Chloe Thurlow
#87. A glance, a word
and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#88. Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.
Michio Kaku
#90. It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
Archibald Rutledge
#91. No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
#92. How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#93. What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.
Wayne Muller
#94. No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.
Akiane Kramarik
#95. I plan on fulfilling our destiny, no matter the cost.
-Aurora
Candace Knoebel
#96. As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Waitley
#97. To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.
Dallin H. Oaks
#98. Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Most people never think beyond their birth. But if I had contented myself with everyone else's opinions of me, I wouldn't be the man I am today. People like us make our own destinies, Gwenwhyfar - and to the waves with the naysayers who oppose us.
Jennifer McKeithen
#100. The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.
Aeschylus
