Quotes on Destiny And Choice

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

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

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

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.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

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

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.