170 Destiny And Choice Quotes

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Famous Destiny And Choice Quotes

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. - Jean Nidetch

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. — Jean Nidetch

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 Bryant

Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you — Myles Munroe

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — J. K. Rowling

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. — Kenneth Patchen

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them. — Seneca

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in. — Jaggi Vasudev

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. — Priyanka Chopra

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. — Muhammad Iqbal

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny. — Russell M. Nelson

What happens to a person is determined by their fate. — Turkish Proverbs

Short Destiny And Choice Quotes

  • Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden
  • We write our own destiny ...we become what we do. — Chiang Kai-shek
  • If destiny comes to help you, Love will come to meet you. A life without love isn't a life — Rumi
  • Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. — Gayle Forman
  • It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
  • A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. — Benjamin Disraeli
  • We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. — Penelope Lively
  • Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. — Linall Jr. A. L.
  • Life is a journey, not a destination - we determine our destiny by the direction we take. — Anonymous

Destiny And Choice Image Quotes

Destiny and choice quote I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Option And Choice Quotes

We are actually often happier with less. When we’re overloaded with opportunities and options, we suffer from what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice. — Mark Manson

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE. — Michael Bierut

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices. — Harrison Ford

Destiny and choice quote We are our choices.
We are our choices.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. — Sam Harris

In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what. — M. J. Ryan

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future. — Mitt Romney

Destiny and choice quote When we gamble with our time, we choose our destiny.
When we gamble with our time, we choose our destiny.

I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice. — Tabitha Suzuma

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance. — Joy Page

There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing. — Kim Harrison

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power. — Angelina Jolie

What Is Your Destiny Quotes

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? — Steve Maraboli

To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history. — Christine Caine

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. — Lawrence Block

Destiny and choice quote Whe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Whe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Once you know the way to your spiritual destiny, you can change. Once you realize that there are no limits in your mind Once you realize there are no boundaries to what is possible, you can change. — Wim Hof

Winning is in your DNA. The most high God breathed His life into you. You've got what it takes. This is your time. This is your moment. Shake off doubts, shake off fear and insecurity, and get ready for favor, get ready for increase, get ready for the fullness of your destiny. You can, you will!! — Joel Osteen

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. — Michael J. Fox

Destiny and choice quote Choose your friends wisely. The company you keep can and will affect the opportunities you see.
Choose your friends wisely. The company you keep can and will affect the opportunities you see.

The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable. You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know. — Martha Beck

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion. — Charlie Hunnam

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is. — Benjamin Watson

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others. — Albert Schweitzer

Accept Destiny Quotes

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny. — Joel Osteen

Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap. — Bulgarian Proverbs

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept. — David Sinclair

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. — Henry Miller

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. — Paulo Coelho

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what. — Percy Cerutty

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. — Joseph Heller

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? — Marcus Aurelius

There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is, I’ve always been a fool. — Albert Finney

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence. — Luis Bunuel

Life And Destiny Quotes

Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. — Liam James

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. — Rosa Luxemburg

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. — Henry Ford

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. — Princess Diana

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny. — William E. Gladstone

I need you to rescue me from my destiny, I'm tryna live right and give you whatevers left of me. — Drake

Fate And Destiny Quotes

I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. — Marcus Garvey

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny. — William McKinley

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate. - Bill Paxton

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate. — Bill Paxton

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. — Robert Breault

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen. — Ann Rule

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. — Diana Trilling

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. — William Mcfee

Control your fate or somebody else will — Heinrich von Pierer

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Your Destiny Quotes

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Lao Tzu

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny. — T. D. Jakes

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. — T. D. Jakes

You need to associate with people who inspire you, people that challenge you to raise higher, people that make you better. Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important. — Joel Osteen

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak. — Attila the Hun

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. — Albert Ellis

By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth! — Paula White

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history. — T. D. Jakes

Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!! — Paula White

Believe In Destiny Quotes

You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish. — Joel Osteen

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them. — Zac Efron

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view. — Michael York

Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai. — Dhirubhai Ambani

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny — Sam Shepard

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic. — Lyndon B. Johnson

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. — James A. Baldwin

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn. — Sam Snead

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. — Buddha

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. — Harold Clarke Goddard

My Destiny Quotes

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny — Lauryn Hill

I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day. — Paul Kagame

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other. — Yunus Emre

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. — Richard Bach

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. — Princess Diana

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages. — Immortal Technique

One love, one heart, one destiny. - Bob Marley

One love, one heart, one destiny. — Bob Marley

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. - Islom Karimov

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. — Islom Karimov

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. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. — Marcel Marceau

I don't know how I ever lived before You are my life, my destiny Oh my darling, I love you so You mean everything to me — Neil Sedaka

Our Destiny Quotes

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. — William Shakespeare

I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better. — T. D. Jakes

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. — Thomas Merton

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. — Tony Robbins

Every thought is a cause & every condition is an effect. Change your thoughts & you change your destiny. — Joseph Murphy

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny. — Michelle Obama

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 will reach your destiny. — Carl Schurz

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. — Alvin Toffler

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny. — Tony Evans

Love Destiny Quotes

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. — Quentin Crisp

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

The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love. — Leonardo Boff

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. — Alice Sebold

Love is not sought; it is found. — Mexican Proverbs

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going. — Warren Miller

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars. — Anais Nin

Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you. — Joel Osteen

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. — Marcus Aurelius

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More Destiny And Choice Quotes

Our genes are not our destiny, they are influenced by our environment and lifestyle choices. — Rhonda Patrick

God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free. — J.P. Moreland

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny. — D. Todd Christofferson

No other road, no other way, No day but today! — Jonathan Larson

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

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. — Benjamin Disraeli

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece. — Regina Brett

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. — Gloria Naylor

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man — John F. Kennedy

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice — Carl Jung

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

There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today. — Jonathan Larson

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny. — Thomas S. Monson

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. — Harry S. Truman

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. — Denis Waitley

Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in. — Deepak Chopra

Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence. — Napoleon Hill

Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair. — Rick Riordan

The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded. — Sayings

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. — Donna Rice

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. — John F. Kennedy

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. — Donna Rice Hughes

Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs. — Thomas Merton

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. — Zhang Yimou

The choices we make, determine our destiny — Brandon October

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny. — Paulo Coelho

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny — Heraclitus

Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish. — Tom Hanks

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States. — Pat Buchanan

Life is simple yet complex, in the complexity we realize everything is simple for we create our own happiness, our own sadness & our own destiny by not making a choice you have chosen so face life with courage and faith in yourself. — Bonnie Raitt

think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices. — Astra Taylor

Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies. — Anne Rice

In order to do something you've never done, you've got to become someone you've never been. I think that all of us have great potential within us, but greatness is a choice; it's not our destiny. And in the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials, failures and disappointments , which take us to the door of discovery and greatness. — Les Brown

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices. — Benjamin Carson

For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [...] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith. — Lyndon B. Johnson

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. — Henry David Thoreau

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. — Mark Hopkins

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence. — Triple H

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust. — S. Truett Cathy

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