Explore Quotes on Destiny

It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in.

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.

By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural for us to want to be accountable for our own fates because there is a whispering within us confirming that this accountability is absolutely essential to the attainment of our eternal destiny.

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than_x000D_ is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal_x000D_ investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements._x000D_ France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,_x000D_ because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other_x000D_ the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the_x000D_ province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond_x000D_ life, beyond time, into eternity.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Make every day count. _x000D_Make every hour count._x000D_ Make every minute count. _x000D_And don't stop until you have exercised your full potential, realizing your impossible dream and fulfilling your total destiny to become the person that you, and only you , are capable of being.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United States – more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United States’ southern border, Mexico will affect America’s destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.