Quotes on Destiny

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.

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

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

Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

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