Destiny Quotes - page 4

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. (Daisaku Ikeda)
So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom. View quote
Al Goldstein
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. View quote
Faye Dunaway
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. View quote
Islom Karimov
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. View quote
Thomas Menino
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. View quote
Zhang Yimou
Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. View quote
Paulo Coelho
To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. (Paulo Coelho)
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand. View quote
George Eliot
It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. View quote
George Eliot
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. View quote
Colin Powell
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. View quote
Norman Borlaug
I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged. View quote
David Duke
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. View quote
Marguerite Yourcenar
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed. View quote
Paulo Freire
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. (Ignazio Silone)
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj