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Quotes about Destiny
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“Anatomy is destiny.”
“Such as we are made of, such we be.”
“The destiny of man is in his own soul”
“We write our own destiny; we become what we do.”
“What God writes on your forehead you will become.”
“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”
“It appears I am destined for something; I will live.”
“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
“I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.”
“One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.”
“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.”
“I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage]”
“What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”
“Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”
“If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.”
“I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.”
“No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.”
“Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.”
“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.”
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”
“Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.”
“We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.”
“No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
“Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.”
“We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.”
“And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.”
“The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.”
“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
“More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.”