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

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 122 reads

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• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 121 reads

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• Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 40 reads

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• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 33 reads

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• 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

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 140 reads

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• Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

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  Konrad Adenauer

  PoliticianGerman1876 · 19th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 48 reads

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• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 61 votes · 26 reads

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

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 113 reads

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• 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

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 109 reads

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• Such as we are made of, such we be.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 31 reads

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• 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

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 80 reads

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• The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 143 reads

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• The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 92 reads

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• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 200 reads

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• 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.

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  Anonymous

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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 55 reads

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• Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 133 reads

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has n

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 29 votes · 159 reads

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