Destiny Quotes - Page 4

• The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Birthday, Character

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• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Fighting, Fate

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.160, Vintage

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• Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Life Is, Thee, Portions

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• It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Your Destiny, Our Destiny, Habitual

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eye, Reality, Cities

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• My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

  Jeff Probst

  Writing, Fate, Goal

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Friendship, Letting Go

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• I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

  Che Guevara

  Travel, Facts, Conformity

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

  Liu Dan

  Leaving, Energy, Thread

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Causes, May, Spinning

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Together, Faces, Common

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Oct 24, 2016

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• No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.207

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• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Lasts, Defeat

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.274

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• The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Strong, Virtuous

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

  Albert Ellis

  Happiness, Responsibility, Control Of Your Life

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• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  Ignazio Silone

  Luck, Invention, Cowardly Acts

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• It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

  Umar

  Worry, Outcomes, Way

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• I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

  Og Mandino

  Waiting, Needs, My Own

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.68, Bantam

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• Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.

  Henry Hancock

  Christian, Character, Deeds

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• You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Want, Think And Grow Rich

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• You are the Master of your own Destiny

  Sivananda

  Masters, Breeders, My Destiny

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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

  Aeschylus

  Men, Waiting, Liberty

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Funny Work, Confusion

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• Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

  David Seabury

  Love, Jealousy, Hate

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