Destiny Quotes

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

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

A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

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

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

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

Anatomy is destiny.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his 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.