DESTINY

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
Albert Einstein

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverbs

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

Sow a thought and you reap an action; 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

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
French Proverbs

We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage]
Christie Brinkley

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Yiddish Proverbs

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Epictetus

Destiny is not a 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.
William Jennings Bryan

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s.
Epictetus

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
Edward M. Forster

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
Aleister Crowley

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
Alfred A. Montapert

What God writes on your forehead you will become.
The Koran

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Anthony Robbins

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Muriac

We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.
Source Unknown

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
Anthony Robbins

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

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
Jan Patocka

The Wheels of Time Let no one Spin them, so Let the Future Open the Doors.
Mrityunjay Tomar