Shaping Our Own Destiny Quotes

#1. Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.

Destiny Allison

#2. Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..

T. S. Eliot

#3. Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

Owen Arthur

#4. Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

Rumi

#5. He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

Ludwig Von Mises

#6. Throughout history, different cultures have produced creation myths that explain our origins as the result of cosmic forces shaping our destiny. These histories have helped us to ward off feelings of insignificance.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. 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.

Paul Tillich

#8. The control of events has been taken out of our hands ... we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny.

Frederick Douglass

#9. Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#11. After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

Jason Newsted

#12. For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.

William Somervile

#13. We have seen the death of Republicanism, of special privilege and national boodle.

Clyde Brion Davis

#14. 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.

Kurt Huber

#15. I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

Ian McKellen

#16. Life is a series of obstacles and setbacks; living is overcoming them.

Dean Karnazes

#17. That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."

George Saunders

#18. I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.

Anita Roddick

#19. All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

Jaggi Vasudev

#20. Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers

#21. It's terrifying to realize your own decisions are shaping your destiny.

S.J. Kincaid