Quotes on Our Destiny

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.

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

If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

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.

A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

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.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

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.