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Finding Your Destiny
Finding the courage to figure out what your destiny is .. takes resolve and fortitude. These quotes should help you ... and are part of the Find Your Fate & Destiny Workshop extended quote collection.
If you need inspiration before you start the workshop or in the middle of it .. try these quotes.
Destiny
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and it important in some respect whether he chooses to be or not.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.
- William Jennings Bryan
You are the master of your own destiny. Use your strengths well. They are the keys to your destiny and your success in life. Once you know yourself and take action to realize your dreams, you can unlock the doors to your own potential.
- Neil Somerville
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- Shakespeare
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Live your own life, for you will surely die your own death.
- Latin proverb
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau (contrast with Buddha this, that intercessions)
Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.
- Seneca
You are the master of your own destiny. Use your strengths well. They are the keys to your destiny and your success in life. Once you know yourself and take action to realize your dreams, you can unlock the doors of your own potential.
- Neil Somerville (Chinese Success Signs)
Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.
- Virgil
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
- Orison Swett Marden
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.
- Marcel Marceau
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
- French Proverb
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
You are what your deep driving desire is;
As your deep driving desire is, so is your will;
As your will is so is your deed;
As your deed is so is your destiny.- Maitri Upanishads
As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Sow a thought and you reap an act;
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Critical Tasks
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
- Les(ter Louis) Brown
Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
- Wanda Carter
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
Control your destiny or somebody else will.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
- Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
- Sir Karl Popper
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
- Orison Swett Marden
Sow a thought and you reap an act;
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Finding a Guide
Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world ...
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it ...
Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be.- Song Lyrics "Suddenly I See " by KT Tunstall
Challenges
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
- Aristotle
As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
- Norman Cousins
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
- Alessandro Baricco, Book: Silk
Find the thread of your life and follow it.
- Manifest Your Potential.com
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.
- Alessandro Baricco, Book: Silk
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
- Alessandro Baricco, Book: Silk
The Body will again become restless
Until your soul paints all its beauty
Upon the Sky ...
For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny
And you awake ...
- Hafiz
I think that all religious men have believed that there is a hand not ours in the events of life, and that, as somebody says in Why.helm Meister, accident is destiny; and I think it was Heraclitus who said: the Daimon is our destiny. When I think of life as a struggle with the Daimon who wood ever set us to the hardest work among those not impossible, I understand why there is a deep enmity B.Tween man and his destiny.
- W. B. Yeats, Per Amica Silentia Lunae
When correctly understood, the truths of the science of the Spirit will give man a true foundation for his life, will let him recognize his value, his dignity and his Essence -- for these truths enlighten him about his connection with the world (key 21) around him, they show him his highest goals, his true destiny.
- Rudolf Steiner
Movie Quotes
~ Do you think a man can change his destiny?
~~ I think a man does what he can until his destiny is revealed to him.- Last Samarai (movie quote)
When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.
- Serendipity (movie)
Destiny. I've got her now …
- Real Genius (movie quote)
Hey, what about me? We have to send something out into the Universe with your name on it, don't we? Come on ... isn't that the only fair thing?
- Serendipity (movie quote)
This is just wrong. You don't have the most INCREDIBLE night of your life with a PERFECT stranger and then leave it all 2 chance, do U?
- Serendipity (movie quote)
When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.
- Serendipity (movie)
Your my hero. You're out there, man, making it happen.
- Serendipity (movie)
Let the work begin.
- The Princess Diaries (movie)
~ so this is our destiny?
~ If not us, then who?
- Earthsea (TV movie quote)
Now you listen to me. We all have a destiny. Nothing just happens. Its all part of a plan ... I should have died out there with my men ....
- Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump (movie)
I happen to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you. Q: What's my destiny Momma? A: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you are going to get.
- Forrest's mom in Forrest Gump (movie)
I don't know if we each have a destiny or if we are all floating accidentally like on a breeze. But I think maybe its both. Maybe both are happening at the same time.
- Forrest Gump (movie)
The good cannot exist with the bad. You can't escape your destiny.
- Helen of Troy (TV movie quote)
"Destiny take a hard ... Mom, destiny is something we invented to explain accidents.
- Sleepless In Seattle (movie)
Links To Other Quote Sources
- Quotations about Fate and Destiny from the Quote Garden
Features about 13 quotes and humorous sayings about fate and destiny.
- Quotations about Fate at Proverbia
Has about 20 famous quotes about fate.