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I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny.
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
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.
I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.
We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.
One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.
Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.
Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.
It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.
Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.