Destiny Quotes
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Destiny quotes remind us to take responsibility for our destiny. Every person is born with a destiny as well as free will to pursue that destiny or ignore it. Allan K. Chalmers reminds us,
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” A fulfilled destiny is the most hoped-for of goal of a purposeful life.
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John O'Donohue
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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Our stories are singular but our destiny is shared.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru
We must trust our soul's noncallings as well as its callings. Destiny seems to have very specific ideas about what each of us should be doing on the planet, and our greatest personal fulfillment always lies in those directions and none other.
Dianne Skafte
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Anatomy is destiny.
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Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.
Lewis Carroll
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
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I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton
I think ‘destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Jodie Foster Tweet this Quote!
If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.
Rodney Crowell
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
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It's choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.
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Plant a thought, reap an act. Plant an act, reap a habit. Plant a habit, reap a character. Plant a character, reap a destiny.
Confucius
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us mere accident springs form the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
We create our fate every day we live.
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What a man thinks of himself, it is that which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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