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• Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Defining, Opinion

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• You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Respect, Acceptance

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Spring, Chance

  Early Dramas The Death of Wallenstein Act II, Scene III

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• I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Believe, Fate

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• I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Fall, Fate

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

  Mark Strand

  Fate, Dumb, Made

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.208, Knopf

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• A man must know his destiny.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Fork In The Road, Knows

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  It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Determination, Mistake

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• It appears I am destined for something; I will live.

  Robert Clive

  Destined

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• 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.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you do not create your destiny,
  you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Fate

  William Irwin Thompson (2001). “Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution”, Lindisfarne Press

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• 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.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• If you create a character, you create a destiny.

  Andre Maurois

  Inspirational, Character, Ifs

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• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Vision, Plus

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• I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

  Princess Diana

  Jobs, Women, Princess

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• 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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love You, Wish, Make You Happy

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• Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Faces, United

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.21, Ignatius Press

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• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Innovation, Insightful

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• Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

  Islom Karimov

  My Destiny, Your Destiny, Our Destiny

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  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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.82, New York Review of Books

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