Destiny Quotes

‘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 never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.’ – Steve Jobs

‘A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.’ – William Shakespeare

‘It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.’ – Tony Robbins

‘Destiny is no 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

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

‘There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘As long as we are persistence 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.’ – Denis Waitley

‘I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It’s what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.’ – Lana

‘Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.’ – Jean Nidetch

‘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

‘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

‘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.’ – James Allen

‘Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.’ – Fidel Castro

‘There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.’ – Edwin Markham

‘Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.’ – Ralph Marston

‘Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.’ – Rodrigo Duterte

‘For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.’ – Frantz Fanon

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

‘Character is destiny.’ – Heraclitus

‘Control your own destiny or someone else will.’ – Jack Welch

‘Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.’ – Huey Newton

‘Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.’ – Bob Marley

‘The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.’ – Charles Stanley

‘Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.’ – Harry S Truman

‘We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.’ – Lal Bahadur Shastri

‘It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.’ – Kofi Annan

‘I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘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

‘When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You’ve asked them, I’ve asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. ‘How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?” – Ravi Zacharias

‘Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.’ – Stan Lee

‘The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.’ – Albert Einstein

‘You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.’ – Mark Victor Hansen

‘We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.’ – William McKinley

‘The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.’ – Kwame Nkrumah

‘People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.’ – Richard Russo

‘Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.’ – Paul Tillich

‘God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.’ – Joel Osteen

‘A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘Anatomy is destiny.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Our history is not our destiny.’ – Alan Cohen

‘I’m in control of my own destiny, I suppose, and my own development if I put the work in.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘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

‘There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.’ – Frank Harris

‘Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘Demography is destiny.’ – Auguste Comte

‘Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.’ – John Heywood

‘You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.’ – Octavia Spencer

‘This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.’ – Alfred A. Montapert

‘The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.’ – John McAfee

‘I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter – it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.’ – Henry Rollins

‘We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it.’ – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

‘What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.’ – Linus Torvalds

‘Destiny doesn’t make mistakes.’ – Dustin Poirier

‘How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?’ – Ferdowsi

‘People do not want words – they want the sound of battle – the battle of destiny.’ – Gamal Abdel Nasser

‘Everything happens for a reason. I’m used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘One country, one constitution, one destiny.’ – Daniel Webster

‘The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

‘Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.’ – Grace Paley

‘No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.’ – Agnes de Mille

‘Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.’ – Abraham Verghese

‘I’ve been in love. I believe in destiny and true love.’ – Michael Sorrentino

‘It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.’ – Jean-Claude Duvalier

‘The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.’ – Colin Powell

‘I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look.’ – Louise Mensch

‘Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Children… are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God’s children.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.’ – Gustav Mahler

‘I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.’ – Waylon Jennings

‘Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.’ – David Seabury

‘We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.’ – C. V. Raman

‘We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.’ – Theodor Herzl

‘The destiny of man is in his own soul.’ – Herodotus

‘Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.’ – Dennis Banks

‘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

‘I’ve had a blessed life. I’ve pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don’t know what’ll happen tomorrow.’ – Cilla Black

‘Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.’ – R. D. Laing

‘I can control my destiny; I control my life.’ – Shahid Khan

‘Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.’ – Georges Braque

‘The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.’ – T. D. Jakes

‘Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘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

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

‘A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.’ – Albert Camus

‘The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.’ – William Shatner

‘I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn’t happen, it was for a reason.’ – Didier Drogba

‘I believe in destiny, God’s hand and hard work.’ – Katrina Kaif

‘I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‘Independent Women,’ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.’ – Fela Kuti

‘Destiny plays a very important role in my life.’ – Mohanlal

‘Psychoanalysis – and any good therapy – is a method of increasing one’s awareness of destiny in order to increase one’s experience of freedom.’ – Rollo May

‘I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.’ – Gloria Vanderbilt

‘America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘I’ll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I’m going to fight for my dignity and my honor.’ – Ferdinand Marcos

‘The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn’t want to give a long dissertation.’ – Bobby Seale

‘The laws of nature tell us there’s a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that’s going to run out. And if we’re smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can’t help but reach for the stars. It’s our nature. It’s our destiny.’ – Bill Frist

‘Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.’ – Nick Saban

‘The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.’ – Mauro Icardi

‘Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘No one is going to try to fill my mother’s shoes, what she did was fantastic. It’s about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.’ – Prince William

‘I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.’ – Hedy Lamarr

‘Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can’t have any regrets.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

‘I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.’ – Jamaica Kincaid

‘So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.’ – Al Goldstein

‘Ignorance is bliss, or so we’re told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.’ – Gayle Lynds

‘If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.’ – Andre Maurois

‘My mother’s passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer’s daughter, was to shape my entire life.’ – Faye Dunaway

‘In ‘Finding Dory,’ I play a whale shark named Destiny who can’t swim very well. We’re both extremely clumsy!’ – Kaitlin Olson

‘We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.’ – Samora Machel

‘I always believe in destiny.’ – Sridevi

‘I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn’t even know about it. If that isn’t destiny, what is?’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor

‘The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.’ – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

‘Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.’ – Charles Reade

‘I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny’s Child telling me I didn’t need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.’ – Mabel

‘The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.’ – Ignazio Silone

‘Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.’ – Franz Liszt

‘We must all remember life doesn’t have to be fair for us to succeed if we take change and become masters and creators of our own destiny.’ – Dan Pena

‘Many Britons who backed Brexit believed – and believe still – that a U.K. ‘freed’ from ‘Europe’ would be able to recover and re-establish its historic destiny as an independent global trading nation.’ – Linda Colley

‘I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.’ – Shahid Khan

‘Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.’ – Marguerite Duras

‘My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.’ – Chris Brown

‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.’ – DeMarcus Cousins

‘The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.’ – Anthony Mackie

‘I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.’ – Alija Izetbegovic

‘We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.’ – Billy Childish

‘However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.’ – Frantz Fanon

‘I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.’ – Adnan Sami

‘Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.’ – Brian Weiss

‘There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Every people should be originators of their own destiny.’ – Martin Delany

‘The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.’ – Laura Chinchilla

‘Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.’ – Steven Pressfield

‘As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.’ – Jonathan Evison

‘I don’t enjoy public attention. I don’t like being recognised, being clicked, or being written about. But then it is destiny. I am just going with the flow.’ – Nithya Menen

‘For our country and people, October 10 is a meaningful revolutionary holiday when they celebrate the birth anniversary of the genuine vanguard of the revolution, its militant General Staff, which has taken responsibility for their destiny and leads them.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘You control your own destiny. You go out there and work hard and show people that you come to work and earn your respect. All you can control is how you go out there and perform every day.’ – Derrick Henry

‘I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘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

‘I declare that President Trump will overcome every strategy from hell and every strategy from the enemy, and he will fulfill his calling and his destiny. I secure his calling, I secure his purpose, I secure his family, and we secure victory in the name which is above every name – the name of Jesus Christ.’ – Paula White

‘Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘I firmly believe in destiny, so let’s see what my luck has in store for me.’ – Rishi Kapoor

‘I have always had complete faith in the Almighty. But there are times when I question His actions. I do that very rarely, because I am an absolute believer in destiny.’ – Rekha

‘I believe in destiny and the philosophy of karma.’ – Asha Bhosle

‘To be a Jew is a destiny.’ – Vicki Baum

‘The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.’ – Alexander Pope

‘The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.’ – Jose Manuel Barroso

‘Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it’s the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.’ – Liu Xiaobo

‘I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl. My social transition began with growing my hair and wearing clothes and makeup that made me feel like Destiny’s Fourth Child.’ – Janet Mock

‘For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination.’ – Lawrence Durrell

‘We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.’ – Oscar de la Renta

‘The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.’ – Guy Davenport

‘Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.’ – Hector Elizondo

‘I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.’ – Marina and the Diamonds

‘When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it’s really empowering.’ – Octavia Spencer

‘Jesus viewed his own destiny – to be glorified in and through death – as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.’ – John Ortberg

‘My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny’s Child.’ – Bebe Rexha

‘Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny, but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.’ – George Weah

‘We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.’ – Lal Bahadur Shastri

‘I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.’ – Cecile de France

‘Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Kosovo’s destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.’ – Emma Bonino

‘I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.’ – Lady Gaga

‘For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.’ – Ken Follett

‘You definitely learn from mistakes and adversity and I feel like those setbacks are a catapult to your true destiny.’ – Kelvin Gastelum

‘Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.’ – Paul Verhoeven

‘The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘When you become an instrument in God’s hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person’s eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.’ – Charles Stanley

‘You have to make your own destiny.’ – Vincent Janssen

‘Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.’ – Nick Saban

‘The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.’ – William R. Alger

‘Take destiny in your own hands.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.’ – William Irwin Thompson

‘If you’ve given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you’ve given away.’ – David Whyte

‘You control your own destiny.’ – Tommy Pham

‘Swearing’s my release. It’s the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.’ – Andrea Pirlo

‘Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.’ – Charles Barkley

‘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

‘We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.’ – Barbara Jordan

‘When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it’s like energy – an intangible destiny.’ – Jamie Foxx

‘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

‘Sorrowful and great is the artist’s destiny.’ – Franz Liszt

‘Whether it’s destiny or fate or whatever, I don’t think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.’ – Thomas Keller

‘Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.’ – David A. Bednar

‘Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!’ – Stephen Curry

‘If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest financial company in the world.’ – David O. Sacks

‘Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.’ – Mithali Raj

‘Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man’s general destiny.’ – Lascelles Abercrombie

‘And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.’ – Andre Malraux

‘I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.’ – Pranab Mukherjee

‘The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.’ – James Woods

‘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.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.’ – Niki de St. Phalle

‘I think that by going on the path that I am, my destiny will just come to me.’ – Jason Derulo

‘We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.’ – Catherine Booth

‘Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.’ – Daniel Webster

‘The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying ‘Destiny.’ For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.’ – Nastia Liukin

‘Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘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

‘The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.’ – Marcel Marceau

‘Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.’ – Rita Hayworth

‘Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.’ – George Santayana

‘Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.’ – Freeman Dyson

‘Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.’ – Barry Humphries

‘The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.’ – Matt Blunt

‘Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.’ – Islom Karimov

‘We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.’ – Roh Moo-hyun

‘At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.’ – Roh Moo-hyun

‘At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.’ – Paul Martin

‘I’m not sure I’m quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there’s some kind of destiny involved with meeting people… some things are just meant to happen.’ – Audrey Tautou

‘In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.’ – Alija Izetbegovic

‘I’m just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.’ – Hussein of Jordan

‘One knows less about one’s own destiny than about anything else on earth.’ – Gabrielle Roy

‘Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn’t come out yet.’ – Casper Van Dien

‘For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now – I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.’ – Fernando Alonso

‘It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.’ – Waverley Lewis Root

‘The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino’s day.’ – Waverley Lewis Root

‘And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny’s Child.’ – Robert Englund

‘To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don’t control our own borders.’ – Tom Tancredo

‘But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my ‘antlers’ and prevented me from returning home.’ – Georg Solti

‘Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.’ – Oscar de la Renta

‘Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.’ – Barney Oliver

‘So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better – it is how we work in our trade – is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.’ – Michael York

‘We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.’ – Alfred Rosenberg

‘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

‘But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.’ – Paul Ricoeur

‘We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.’ – Tony Snow

‘Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.’ – Thomas Menino

‘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

‘We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.’ – Placido Domingo

‘The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.’ – Bob Schaffer

‘So we’ve moved from an era when women’s biology was women’s destiny to today, which is an era in which men’s biology is men’s destiny.’ – Warren Farrell

‘There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘You shape your own destiny.’ – Chet Atkins

‘The SA is, and remains, Germany’s destiny.’ – Ernst Rohm

‘At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.’ – Joseph Rotblat

‘A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men’s minds all around the globe.’ – Emily Greene Balch

‘We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans.’ – Mangosuthu Buthelezi

‘My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.’ – Jeff Probst

‘Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.’ – Mark Shields

‘No man can be stronger than his destiny.’ – Mary Hunter Austin

‘The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.’ – Polykarp Kusch

‘I took the name Green Destiny from – well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it’s an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.’ – Ang Lee

‘You can be great only if it is your destiny.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.’ – Mark Strand

‘As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.’ – Kurt Huber

‘The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘I think ‘destiny’ is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.’ – Jodie Foster

‘Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.’ – Aeschylus

‘I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.’ – Thomas Love Peacock

‘There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.’ – Edith Wharton

‘An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.’ – Norman Mailer

‘I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.’ – Benjamin Spock

‘In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.’ – Benjamin Spock

‘Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.’ – Max Frisch

‘It’s our destiny to explore. It’s our destiny to be a space-faring nation.’ – Gene Cernan

‘Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.’ – Walid Jumblatt

‘This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.’ – Tavis Smiley

‘Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!’ – Jerry Brown

‘When the ‘Seinfeld’ show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn’t – wouldn’t work. It did. ‘Thor’ is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it’s not doing what was expected… and yet it’s doing very well.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.’ – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

‘I thought, if I went into business I’d be able to control my own destiny.’ – Tommy Hilfiger

‘There is just one France… one single nation, united in the same destiny.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I’m still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.’ – Alex Borstein

‘I’ve taken my destiny into my own hands and I’m in a happy place.’ – Charlie Simpson

‘If you believe the disappointments – if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I’m asking for your vote.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I don’t have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.’ – Robin Gibb

‘For us, destiny always feels… if you obey, it’s almost a passive thing.’ – Danny Boyle

‘I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.’ – David Boreanaz

‘There’s no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean – or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean – to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It’s not, ‘Hey, you have so much.” – Luke Scott

‘In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.’ – Barry Unsworth

‘The business has changed so much that they’re able – we’re able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.’ – Bobby Brown

‘I knew my destiny was to be in the winner’s circle. There were times along the way where I didn’t make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.’ – Venus Williams

‘Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’ So here we stand. Americans have a choice.’ – Mitt Romney

‘If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they’ve been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.’ – Scott Walker

‘Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director’s point of view.’ – Steven Spielberg

‘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. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn’t love.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘I’ve always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.’ – Jay Inslee

‘We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.’ – Ron Fournier

‘Our future is our sense of common destiny.’ – Ahmet Davutoglu

‘You can now be a master of your own destiny. I’m not sure why you would sign up with a record label.’ – Sean Parker

‘Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I’ve learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I’ve always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There’s only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Most modern science fiction went to school on ‘Dune.’ Even ‘Harry Potter’ with its ‘boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny’ shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.’ – Gary Ross

‘I am the biggest Destiny’s Child – Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them – fan in the world.’ – Jennifer Hudson

‘I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.’ – Elliot Page

‘I do believe that one way to have a destiny is to choose one.’ – Melinda McGraw

‘I like Destiny’s Child.’ – Bonnie Wright

‘I want to be in control of my own destiny.’ – Ray LaMontagne

‘I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.’ – Michael Morpurgo

‘For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.’ – Conrad Black

‘What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with ‘our’ planet? In my opinion, yes.’ – Roy Harper

‘There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.’ – Hun Sen

‘All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.’ – Pratibha Patil

‘It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.’ – Adam Derek Scott

‘I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don’t want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.’ – Vijay Mallya

”I Am Number Four’ is a great story about a guy who’s trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.’ – Alex Pettyfer

”I Am Number Four’ is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.’ – Alex Pettyfer

‘I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you’re the author of your own destiny.’ – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

‘I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.’ – Naveen Jain

‘I’ve realized that my… let me call it ‘destiny’ or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.’ – Irrfan Khan

‘It makes common sense to be managed by results and it’s freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I’m so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.’ – Maynard Webb

‘Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it’s not how people meet their destiny. It’s time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, ‘how can I do both?’ And, then, we can find solutions.’ – Maynard Webb

‘I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.’ – Steve Garvey

‘The sanctity of a woman’s right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own… I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.’ – Dick Gephardt

‘I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro. You can expand and extend it into the whole constitutional issue. The British people have been suckered with regard to how the whole currency and constitutional issues have been sold to them.’ – Lloyd Dorfman

‘By all means, let’s have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?’ – Lloyd Dorfman

‘There’s a destiny for everybody. The world is set up – as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic – but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.’ – James Redfield

‘I’ve learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.’ – Meg Rosoff

‘There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is ‘the product of destiny,’ or ‘formed by fate,’ or ‘predestined for a certain life.’ I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.’ – Michael Gurian

‘I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.’ – Marie-Chantal Claire

‘I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.’ – Avan Jogia

‘Crazy as it sounds, I’m a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I’ve had a baby! And I’ve written an opera!’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They’re dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there’s something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey’s or Destiny’s Child’s any day.’ – Sufjan Stevens

‘There’s no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother’s shoes; what she did was fantastic. It’s about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.’ – Prince William

‘It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone’s disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.’ – Ron Howard

‘The other kids wanted to play Destiny’s Child, but I wanted Anita O’Day.’ – Nellie McKay

‘Technology is not destiny.’ – Erik Brynjolfsson

‘Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean.’ – Lynda Resnick

‘We are each other’s destiny.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz

‘It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.’ – Mark Pagel

‘As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother… The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do – be fabulous and black and on TV.’ – Niecy Nash

‘Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.’ – Sonu Nigam

‘It is difficult to understand why I am so famous. I never thought I wanted to be an actress. I never thought about it. I think it is my destiny to be in this business.’ – Li Bingbing

”Masquerade’ is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny’s Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.’ – Wyclef Jean

‘You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can’t help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.’ – Rani Mukerji

‘Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Musical compositions can be very sad – Chopin – but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.’ – Umberto Eco

‘The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.’ – Alain Badiou

‘Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.’ – Queen Latifah

‘I made a stamp with Destiny’s Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I’m very proud.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘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.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.’ – Rose Kennedy

‘We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.’ – Julia Cameron

‘I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn’t make it, you’ll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.’ – Jeffrey Osborne

‘Dr. King said, ‘We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.’ Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles – is not doing well, then I’m not doing very well.’ – Hill Harper

‘What’s interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the ‘Manifest Your Destiny’ foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.’ – Hill Harper

‘Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.’ – George Packer

‘I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.’ – Tom Ford

‘I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn’t passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.’ – Will Packer

‘All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I’m a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I’d be miserable and would feel like I wasn’t seeing through my personal destiny.’ – Idina Menzel

‘Stardom happens – you can’t plan it – it’s destiny, and you shouldn’t stand between you and your destiny. I’m letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don’t, I just refuse, as simple as that.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘I had never dreamt I’d become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.’ – Madhuri Dixit

‘I’m a believer of destiny, and I believe I’m destiny’s child. I’ve seen the highs, and I’ve seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘I’m destiny’s child. I wasn’t meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘I have huge respect for women who go out of their homes and have the courage to make their own destiny. And let me tell you, Indian women are doing a great job. There are those who work because they have no option but to earn, and then there are those who do it because they have the right talent. I respect both.’ – Shilpa Shetty

‘I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization.’ – George William Russell

‘A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this.’ – Jane Welsh Carlyle

‘I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don’t believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don’t like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.’ – Gong Li

”Lost’ is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.’ – Carlton Cuse

‘Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.’ – Tim Walz

‘Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.’ – Eskinder Nega

‘I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.’ – Joe Frazier

‘Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.’ – Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

‘Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.’ – John James Audubon

‘It’s destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.’ – Pawan Kalyan

‘We all have the same destiny. The difference is opening ourselves up to possibilities to joy, hope, and happiness along the way. Give yourself and others a chance to take advantage of what’s out there and available.’ – Diane Ladd

‘We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new ‘Declaration of Inter-dependence.’ A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.’ – Cory Booker

‘I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don’t know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.’ – Sunny Deol

‘Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something hard enough and you’re willing to work for it, I think you can get it. I truly believe that.’ – Billy Magnussen

‘When you’re at a certain point in your time – age, that is, when you’re older – you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It’s not grand at all, actually.’ – Ridley Scott

‘The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.’ – Joseph P. Bradley

‘Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.’ – David Josiah Brewer

‘The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it’s halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn’t just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.’ – Arthur L. Herman

‘All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind – what a dream!’ – Leon Bourgeois

‘We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.’ – Peter Fenton

‘I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.’ – John Caudwell

‘Genes are not destiny!’ – Bruce Lipton

‘I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny.’ – Enrico Caruso

‘The ‘Broken Destiny’ series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.’ – Jeaniene Frost

‘The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.’ – John Mackey

‘Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don’t learn. Quality you are born with.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

‘When I first saw Destiny’s Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me.’ – Lizzo

‘You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can’t leave everything up to someone else, ’cause then you can look at them and blame them.’ – Action Bronson

‘I’ve been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.’ – Mackenzie Davis

‘I was always into pop music, Destiny’s Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn’t all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.’ – Eliza Doolittle

‘In 2013, I didn’t work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.’ – Trai Byers

‘Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn’t mean we have to stay there.’ – James Redfield

‘Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.’ – Anupam Kher

‘So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn’t feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.’ – Andrew Kreisberg

‘My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny’s Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.’ – Jess Glynne

‘Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at the end of the day, Singapore is our home. We share a common destiny, and I think all of us work together for the benefit of our country.’ – Tony Tan

‘I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.’ – Chris Benz

‘I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.’ – Anders Hejlsberg

‘The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.’ – Theodor Mommsen

‘I’m not just considered a former child star. I’m not considered a black actress. I’m not considered an actress. I’ve done roles that were written for men. First and foremost is God: I definitely believe in Him having kind of mapped out what my destiny was going to be.’ – Kim Fields

‘I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I’m really living out my destiny.’ – Sufe Bradshaw

‘I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.’ – Teresita Sy-Coson

‘The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.’ – M. J. Rose

‘I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.’ – Henry Samueli

‘While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.’ – Michael Dirda

‘If Lincoln is among history’s truly great men, he didn’t achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln’s destiny.’ – Steve Erickson

‘Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.’ – Andrew Nikiforuk

‘All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain ‘control’ over your financial destiny – pick your own stocks and execute your own trades – it will be the first step on a short road to riches.’ – Gary Weiss

‘I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she’s great. It’s hard to come out of the group of Destiny’s Child and still kick some butt.’ – Natalie Cole

‘I tell all my younger friends, ‘Don’t be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.” – Iman

‘The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.’ – Narendra Modi

‘I’m excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America’s promise.’ – Antonio Villaraigosa

‘Harlem was a development, a developer’s dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem’s destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.’ – David Levering Lewis

‘Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.’ – Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

‘The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.’ – Tariq Ali

‘I’m never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make ‘Lord of the Rings’ analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That’s where the fight of humanity is.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal

‘Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

‘That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate – that was the one cardinal sin in our community.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.’ – Julian Castro

‘My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny’s Child videos. You’ll see.’ – Solange Knowles

‘When Destiny’s Child released their first record, I don’t think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.’ – Solange Knowles

‘My sound is Solange. It’s definitely not Destiny’s Child.’ – Solange Knowles

‘Britain’s destiny lies in Europe.’ – Nigel Lawson

‘Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn’t mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.’ – Cory Booker

‘I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it’s going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they’ll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.’ – Rachel Kushner

‘I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn’t deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children – eight of them – through college; I did not finish college.’ – Nell Carter

‘I’m afraid to go to sleep; I don’t like to lose control of myself. I don’t like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.’ – Eileen Ford

‘I believe in myself and my art so much. I’ve always trusted destiny. Wherever it takes me, I just work damn hard at the opportunity.’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘Your genetics is not your destiny.’ – George M. Church

‘If you ask me, there’s nothing more incredible than a woman who’s in charge of her own destiny – and working daily to make her dreams a reality.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘I said I wanted to be the best in the world. I thought if I could make it, I would be able to change my future, to change my destiny. I would push myself to the limits. I would do 70 laps and barely eat.’ – Terezinha Guilhermina

‘I wouldn’t go so far to say that destiny preserves me. I managed to survive and to succeed.’ – Ariel Sharon

‘The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.’ – Petina Gappah

‘There’s an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.’ – Tommy Lee Jones

‘Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.’ – William Godwin

‘We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.’ – Doug Ducey

‘I can look at you and say, ‘I’m gonna be the biggest artist in the world’ because, at the end of the day, it’s about the trust I have in God. He’s already shown me that I’m gonna fulfil my destiny.’ – Tory Lanez

‘The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people – that is supposed to be invincibility. That’s enormous.’ – Margo Jefferson

‘A lot of people in the film industry are fatalists who think a worthwhile film will always achieve its destiny, and the films that aren’t worthwhile won’t. It’s all sort of pre-determined, etc. And I don’t think that’s true at all.’ – Whit Stillman

‘We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.’ – Donald Trump

‘So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.’ – Donald Trump

‘Up until ‘WWE 2K15’ came out, I was primarily a ‘Call of Duty’ guy. So a lot of ‘Call of Duty’and also a little bit of ‘Destiny’ as well. But I’ve always been a big fan of the COD franchise.’ – Roman Reigns

‘I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.’ – Alia Bhatt

‘I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.’ – Shraddha Kapoor

‘In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.’ – Ken Cuccinelli

‘Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family – Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican – and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘Industry has been very good to me. I am glad that destiny brought me here.’ – Jacqueline Fernandez

‘Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.’ – Irina Shayk

‘My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.’ – John Hurt

‘I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.’ – Nick Saban

‘I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘Destiny plays an important part, but talent and hard work is also important.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘Whatever happens, happens for the better. I was meant to do ‘Raabta.’ Every film has its destiny, and it’s the film that chooses you.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘It’s scary to imagine yourself failing. But I do know that in Bollywood, every Friday changes your destiny, and unfortunately, every Friday also changes the way people look at you.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘Who am I to say anybody can’t do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?’ – Robbie Lawler

‘Destiny’s Child I grew up on hard core. Like, I can’t tell you how much I love the three of them so much and what they had to offer.’ – Normani Kordei

‘Ever since I was little, I looked up to Destiny’s Child so much; I looked up to the Spice Girls and En Vogue. A piece of me wanted to be in a girl group.’ – Normani Kordei

‘Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn’t necessarily going to work in their favor – that’s a universal story; that’s an archetypal story.’ – Kelly Asbury

‘Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundamental Islam is progressing and we see major religious claims, or do we want an independent nation, with people able to control their own destiny, or do we accept to be a region managed by the technocrats of the European Union?’ – Marine Le Pen

‘A people decides its own destiny.’ – Marine Le Pen

‘They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it’s the election of Donald Trump, or Brexit, the elites have realized that the people have stopped listening to them, that the people want to determine their futures and, in a perfectly democratic framework, regain control of their destiny.’ – Marine Le Pen

‘When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization.’ – Marine Le Pen

‘The history of the Workers’ Party of Korea is a proud course it has traveled shouldering the destiny of the people and leading the Korean revolution to victory under the guidance of the great leaders.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘Who doesn’t love classic Destiny’s Child or Ace of Base? There’s so much amazing music from that time period, so it makes sense that we’re starting to hear that pop up in records.’ – Ricky Reed

‘I really believe in fate or destiny, and I believe the Jacksonville Jaguars were my destiny. I believe, when it’s all said and done, it couldn’t have worked out better for me… man, oh man, this was just perfect.’ – Shahid Khan

‘I think I didn’t know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We’re set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘It’s all about destiny. That’s why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching – because there’s a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you’re going to live inside of it.’ – Forest Whitaker

‘I loved things like Destiny’s Child, and Amy Winehouse’s first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan – just massive, soulful voices.’ – Sam Smith

‘As far as the destiny of the character, I just play them until they’re gone. I try not to get too involved.’ – Paul Sparks

‘The ‘Star Wars’ saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.’ – Kathleen Kennedy

‘If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.’ – Rollo May

‘Wherever I go, the club is never to stay on the same square on the board: they have to move up. I don’t know if it’s coincidence, some calling, or destiny – but whatever it is, it’s the story of my life.’ – Claudio Ranieri

‘When it comes to ’90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny’s Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scott. Whatever my mom was playing in the house is what I was listening to.’ – Justine Skye

‘In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘That really was a lot of the appeal of ‘Rumours.’ The music was wonderful, but the music was also authentic because it was two couples breaking up and writing dialogue to each other. It was also appealing because we were rising to the occasion to follow our destiny.’ – Lindsey Buckingham

‘In crisis times, it’s actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny.’ – Reid Hoffman

‘Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, whatever it may be, is maybe the most fun couple weeks we have a year, but I love being able to control my own destiny. The work that I am able to put in ahead of time was either going to come out and I was going to be successful with it, or I was going to try and fail and learn how to succeed the next time.’ – Jordan Spieth

‘It may sound corny and cliche, but there was a time – and there are still times even today – when I feel lost or confused, and I question if I’m doing the right things. Then I look at my fans, and I listen to music, and I’m reminded that this is my destiny.’ – Justine Skye

‘I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.’ – Ricardo Rossello

‘Not even Trump’s father’s wealth, nor his father’s faith in his son’s destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age of 13, he was shipped off to the New York Military Academy, which employed brutal tactics for the remaking of delinquent character, even resorting to violence to assert control over the boys.’ – Franklin Foer

‘We’ve been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next – manifest destiny. Now it’s hitting us collectively: Our mother’s life is in our hands.’ – Anohni

‘I’ve always been a guy that liked to stay in control of my own destiny.’ – Rolando McClain

‘In ‘Amalur,’ each person believes he has an immutable destiny, one that defines how, and how long, he will live. Until you come along. But of course, your character is the anomaly, somebody who can change both his own fate and the destinies of the people he interacts with. So, naturally, it’s up to you to save the world.’ – Jason Schreier

‘I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn’t.’ – Roger Ross Williams

‘I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn’t I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.’ – Karishma Tanna

‘On stage with the band, your destiny lies in your own hands.’ – David Bryan

‘When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.’ – David Bryan

‘The wild thing is that when I’m in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can’t control anybody’s destiny, so it’s really unsettling.’ – David Bryan

‘If it is written in my destiny that I will go back to Pakistan, then I will. I won’t be scared of going back.’ – Adnan Sami

‘I think acting is my destiny. I did my first film when I was just eight. However, I never took that role seriously.’ – Nithya Menen

‘We’re really, like, big fans of Destiny’s Child.’ – Ally Brooke

‘There is something like destiny. I don’t really care if people doubt or express shock over whether our marriage will work.’ – Karan Patel

‘Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.’ – Anushka Shetty

‘Yes, TV is the dominant medium in Pakistan, but it was a conscious decision to have an Indian film as my first release. Being launched in an Indian film with a great script, character, and music is half the battle won. The rest is destiny.’ – Mawra Hocane

‘I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn’t have any. All I wanted is to change my destiny with my own efforts.’ – Zhou Qunfei

‘I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.’ – Dawn Richard

‘As a science fiction writer, it’s hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.’ – Alastair Reynolds

‘What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there’s anything they can’t do, or must do, ‘because you’re a boy’ or ‘because you’re a girl.’ It’s not a world where anything is ‘taken’ from anyone – it’s one where everyone’s possibilities are enlarged.’ – Naomi Alderman

‘We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.’ – Michaela Coel

‘What I didn’t realize until much later, in hindsight, was I had subconsciously been choosing projects where the woman was in charge of her own destiny.’ – Geena Davis

‘Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.’ – Michel Temer

‘I’m not really into destiny, but it’s funny – I bumped into a woman who told me about an audition, and now I have a BAFTA.’ – Georgina Campbell

‘We often say that the M&M Group’s destiny is inextricably linked with India’s. Both were born around the same time: India in 1947, M&M in 1945. The group has experienced the same vicissitudes that the Indian economy has.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘Part of the American dream is ‘I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.” – Kathy Szeliga

‘During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany’s sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the greatest danger to European stability is Germany’s reluctance to accept its special destiny.’ – John Lanchester

‘So many people don’t have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don’t own their own businesses, don’t have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.’ – Nina Shaw

‘Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in a not too distant future, contribute to all of us in ways we cannot imagine today.’ – Kersti Kaljulaid

‘Part of the point of SETI has always been a search for answers about our own cosmic potential and destiny. If ‘they’ are out there, it means that there may be hope for us.’ – David Grinspoon

‘For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver’s seat of our only destiny. That means ending guardianship in Saudi Arabia, which means recognizing women as full citizens.’ – Manal al-Sharif

‘Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren’t about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our right as a state to control our own destiny and resist attempts by the administration to ramrod a wish list of regulations through agency heads instead of garnering approval from Congress.’ – Scott Pruitt

‘When I drink a little, I sometimes recall my old days. Then I ask myself, ‘What does Roh Moo-hyun mean in my life?’ He really defined my life. My life would have changed a lot if I didn’t meet him. So he is my destiny.’ – Moon Jae-in

‘Like most Americans, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am pro-future, pro-hope, and pro-abundance. I am pro-frontier and will talk to and work with anyone else who shares my belief that it is our goal and destiny to expand life and civilization into space.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘You can only control your own destiny.’ – Scott Coker

‘Getting into drag almost seemed like, not my destiny, but you know how a caterpillar is gonna become a butterfly no matter what? It felt very like that.’ – Aquaria

‘I like to be in control of my own destiny.’ – Paul Rodgers

‘A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I’ve had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don’t believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘What I learned from Beyonce is just the focus, the drive, and to stay creative and to always give, just keep giving. Throughout the years that she’s been doing it, since Destiny’s Child to now, she’s been giving.’ – Luke James

‘Bey is a big sister; she’s a huge supporter. I mean, the whole Destiny’s Child family – Kelly and Michelle – they’ve always been great supporters of mine in all my endeavors.’ – Luke James

‘I think my full name is ‘Ain’t you the girl LeToya who used to be in Destiny’s Child?’ My nickname is ‘Girl from Destiny’s Child.” – LeToya Luckett

‘Everybody thought I was going to give up after the Destiny’s Child situation. But I’m not one to say, ‘Oh, poor me – it’s over.’ I knew that as long as I kept a strong prayer life, I would be able to fulfil my destiny.’ – LeToya Luckett

‘I used to have this thing about my legs. If you look at all of the Destiny’s Child albums from when I was a part of the group, you never saw me in a skirt. I was always the one who wore the pants, because I felt like my legs were too skinny.’ – LeToya Luckett

‘People always say, ‘When you left… ‘ I hate when people say, ‘When you left.’ Why would I leave Destiny’s Child? Ask yourself that before saying that. I didn’t leave. It was a decision that was made, and that’s the end of that.’ – LeToya Luckett

‘I believe that every WWE superstar is in charge, 100 percent, of his own destiny.’ – Jinder Mahal

‘It’s not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I’ve had into my own destiny over the years.’ – Roisin Murphy

‘I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn’t work out so well.’ – Diamond Dallas Page

‘Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don’t realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.’ – Saroo Brierley

‘Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).’ – Justine Musk

‘In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.’ – Samora Machel

‘Every film has its own destiny, and everything happens for a reason.’ – Vicky Kaushal

‘I believe I was put on this planet to act, and it’s given me huge fulfilment. I feel I’ve realised my destiny, and I’ve had a very, very good time doing it.’ – Eileen Atkins

‘I used to make $300 a week, struggling to put food on the table, but I have become one of the highest-paid fighters in the world. I feel that’s destiny.’ – Mark Hunt

‘I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I’ve been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.’ – Alesha Dixon

‘When there is a danceoff, it’s scary thinking that someone’s destiny or fate is in your hands. I actually always prefer it when the public decide on something rather than four individuals. 11 million people are a lot more powerful than four judges.’ – Alesha Dixon

‘I don’t think our destiny is tied to anyone who walks away from our lives.’ – Rachel Boston

‘India happen to me by chance. It’s in my destiny. As soon as I landed here, it only took me 4 months to know exactly why I was here and what had destined to do here.’ – Nora Fatehi

‘Being a foreigner bad guy doesn’t have to be my destiny, and I can be much more than that.’ – Rusev

‘I honestly believe that you can change your destiny by working hard.’ – Raashi Khanna

‘You can’t want an amazing life and then resent it when it happens to you. Destiny has very little to do with what you think and what you want to do and even what you might like.’ – Andrew W.K.

‘Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that’s shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a lot to me. People downplay it, but there’s power there, people reaching toward each other and toward truth. Any mechanism, any resource that we can use to further that reach, is part of the human destiny.’ – Andrew W.K.

‘It’s about listening to the land and being patient and being ready to absorb our dreaming or our path or our destiny slowly, with patience, being ready to absorb that when it’s time and not chasing it.’ – Xavier Rudd

‘Destiny’s Child’s harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.’ – Mabel

‘When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny’s Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of ’90s R&B.’ – Mabel

‘I think that you cannot have everything in life, and sometimes you just – destiny wants you to take another path.’ – Clarence Seedorf

‘We are going to change the destiny of Brazil.’ – Jair Bolsonaro

‘Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma… are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what’s our tragedy.’ – Mahesh Bhatt

‘It’s better to accept destiny.’ – Hina Khan

‘I believe a lot in destiny, and if destiny has it, then I will be seen in films.’ – Hina Khan

‘I can’t say that I never will or would go back to the WWE. I honestly never intended on leaving until I retired. However we don’t choose our destiny. We just live it.’ – Mickie James

‘I’ve got the ability to control my destiny, and I take pride in that.’ – Jordan Burroughs

‘See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don’t have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.’ – Himesh Reshammiya

‘I always believe that it is destiny and divine intervention that are with me.’ – Himesh Reshammiya

‘Boxing was my destiny.’ – Joe Calzaghe

‘Every film has its destiny.’ – Bobby Deol

‘I wrote a song called ‘Four Times A Lady’ for Destiny’s Child, and it was perfect. But then I had to spin it back and change all the lyrics to a guy’s point of view cos I thought the track was too good to give away, heh heh. It’s Craig David now.’ – Craig David

”Fill Me In’ went to number one at the same time Destiny’s Child released ‘Say My Name.’ Having a number one over Destiny’s Child at their peak was just madness to me.’ – Craig David

‘For all its shortcomings, European co-operation and integration has created an understanding of shared destiny. We no longer point guns at each other; we fight it out at a conference table. And we will continue to do so when the U.K. is no longer a member state but, I hope, still a friend.’ – Frans Timmermans

‘I like being in control of my own destiny, really.’ – Guy Martin

‘We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn’t determine your destiny.’ – Lori Lightfoot

‘India continues to be guided by the principles of being non-interfering, non-prescriptive, and non-judgemental. In other words, India remains ready to provide any support but strongly believes that it is for the Arab countries to decide their destiny without any external interference or diktats from outside.’ – Sushma Swaraj

‘I hope Indian parents will allow girls to choose their own destiny.’ – Geeta Phogat

‘Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist Customs Union.’ – Priti Patel

‘I don’t believe in luck. I don’t believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.’ – Bobby Bones

‘I knew I had the potential. I would say, have self belief and dedication and leave the rest to destiny!’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘There’s a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I’m just lost in the world. But there’s a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.’ – Vic Mensa

‘To be an American is to be indoctrinated with racism, violence, capitalism and manifest destiny, the principles upon which the land of the free was founded.’ – Vic Mensa

‘I was running from the calling of God because I didn’t want the responsibility of standing upright and living under a microscope. I know now that others’ destinies rely on my destiny and purpose. I’ve accepted the challenge and am actively walking in that purpose.’ – Ser’Darius Blain

‘What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o’clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don’t. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don’t. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that’s all come and gone.’ – Graeme Souness

‘When I was young I was listening to the Spice Girls and Destiny’s Child. I was singing ‘Independent Woman’ and ‘Survivor,’ and it was all about Girl Power and being with your friends. I don’t think I was singing, ‘Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?” – Kate Nash

‘Every artiste’s shelf life… is their destiny.’ – Akshaye Khanna

‘Beyonce did an incredible job of differentiating the sound of Destiny’s Child in her songs. When you hear Destiny’s Child, you know it based on the harmonies and the melodies.’ – Mathew Knowles

‘One of the great aspects of a Destiny’s Child movie… is the empowerment of the songs and the empowerment that Destiny’s Child has given to women.’ – Mathew Knowles

‘Destiny’s Child has never broken up officially. So don’t be surprised one day if there’s a new record or a tour because the group never officially broke up.’ – Mathew Knowles

‘My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny’s Child.’ – Mathew Knowles

‘When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.’ – Miguel McKelvey

‘You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.’ – Andy Ruiz Jr.

‘My mother picked my name with a spiritual intention: Destiny, ‘what was meant to be.’ She was a very special woman, and a gifted witch.’ – Princess Nokia

‘My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.’ – Santiago Calatrava

‘I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.’ – Jeff Gutt

‘Like I say, every child is born with his or her destiny; what he does with it is what matters.’ – Rajesh Khattar

‘I am a staunch believer that every child is born with his own destiny and I would want to do everything possible for my kids for as long as I am around.’ – Rajesh Khattar

‘We create our own destiny.’ – Alexander Ovechkin

‘Everyone has to be in charge of their own destiny.’ – Sergio Busquets

‘I’m my own harshest critic but I’m also master of my own destiny.’ – Gladys Berejiklian

‘As a player, you’re not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.’ – Nnamdi Asomugha

‘The motto is, control our destiny, do new things, where we talk directly with our consumers and aren’t dependent on ad revenue.’ – Dave Portnoy

‘Sometimes destiny has its own way.’ – Satish Kaushik

‘But I believe in destiny and strongly feel that certain things are meant to happen and so they will happen.’ – Shweta Menon

‘Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair’s shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist’s luck.’ – A. A. Gill

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

‘I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.’ – Anne McClain

‘Returning to ‘SportsNation’ is my destiny.’ – Michelle Beadle

‘Though not into films, my family was associated with films. My grandparents financed films. They didn’t like me getting into films. But, destiny willed it so.’ – Asha Parekh

‘Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.’ – Dalip Tahil

‘I believe that destiny has a big role to play in everyone’s life.’ – Rahul Dev

‘I’m destiny’s child. I’ve enjoyed every minute of my life, all the twists and turns. They have made me who I am.’ – Vijayashanti

‘I think it’s important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I’m just a product, so I feel it’s up to me to take a keen interest in what’s going on around me. After all, it’s my life.’ – Amy Macdonald

‘I tell all kids and the girls growing up that you control your own life, you control your destiny – not where you’re born, not who your parents are.’ – Claressa Shields

‘We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you’re just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it’s a really good feeling.’ – Danny Carey

‘India’s history and destiny, India’s legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Our government is for the people, by the people – and no one can orchestrate a hostile takeover. We, the people, control our destiny.’ – Trish Regan

‘I believe in destiny. What has to come my way always does, sooner or later.’ – Vidyasagar

‘In life, you’re always going to have obstacles put in your path and I am a prime example of from when I was a little girl to where I am now, you control your own destiny.’ – Dana Brooke

‘I feel that it was my destiny to play with Led Zeppelin, and of course I had the chance and I did it to my best ability.’ – Jason Bonham

‘I never thought I would debut in a Telugu film; it was my destiny to take up a film that, incidentally, was about destiny.’ – Kalyani Priyadarshan

‘I wanted to be a designer but I guess destiny had other plans for me and I became an actor.’ – Meera Chopra

‘Destiny never changes with money, but sometimes it turns by meeting good people too.’ – Amit Sadh

‘Aang is an Airbender, and he became the Avatar after the last one died. He has to realize his destiny as the Avatar by mastering all of the elements – earth, fire and air. For me, I feel like I’m mastering all the different styles or elements of MMA. It’s my destiny to become the Avatar of this game.’ – Israel Adesanya

‘I had auditioned for ‘Band Baaja Baarat’ but did not get selected. I was feeling bad, was upset. But I think certain films are meant by destiny. And that film was not meant for me.’ – Rhea Chakraborty

‘You will never get anything in your life which is not written in your destiny.’ – Daisy Shah

‘While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone to work out their own destiny.’ – Heather Cox Richardson

‘You never want to put yourself in that position where you don’t control your own destiny.’ – Amari Cooper

‘I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it’s all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.’ – Judith Durham

‘You have to control your own destiny and make your own choices.’ – John Torode

‘I’m a strong believer in destiny. I believe you are born to do certain things.’ – Anthony Yarde

‘Since the struggle for our nation’s independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual is the pilot of their own destiny, when we come together, we change the world. We are stronger as a woven rope than as unbound threads.’ – Alexander Vindman

‘You have to keep working hard to deliver happiness to customers and you have to control your own destiny.’ – Eric Yuan

‘Every day I’d talk to my customers at Webex and they’d tell me how unhappy they were with our service. This was a terrible way to spend my days, it weighed heavily on my heart. I wanted to spend my days delivering happiness, and I knew I had to take charge of my own destiny to do that.’ – Eric Yuan

‘Acting was never planned. I happened to do an ad that was hugely publicized. After that, I got an offer for a South Indian movie and I thought this is destiny calling.’ – Jasmin Bhasin

‘I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for me.’ – Poonam Dhillon

‘All the credit goes to Jesus Christ, Mother Mary, Shani Bhagwan and Ganpati. These are the four pillars of my destiny.’ – Rakhi Sawant

‘Just like Michael Jackson in the Jackson 5 or Beyonce in Destiny’s Child or Justin Timberlake in ‘NSYNC. I just think there’s something unique and special about the breakout stars in groups. I think you’re able to kind of connect differently with the audience when you’re used to having that support.’ – Omarion

‘When a film is made, its release is decided by its destiny. Nothing is bigger than that, not even me.’ – Shoojit Sircar

‘Trump doesn’t define my destiny, only I do and the Lord above.’ – Skai Jackson

‘I prefer not to return to the Camp Nou wearing another shirt. It would be strange. But if that’s what destiny holds.’ – Pedro

‘You can’t fight your destiny; you can’t fight your audience.’ – Mumtaz

‘If you have back-to-back flops and you’re not a star’s son, it depends on your destiny or contacts. People say ‘No, I’m not going to take this director/actor, he’s given four flops,’ they forget the day when the same person was a hit.’ – Sunny Singh

‘I was raised in an Indian household – singing classical music and eating south Indian food. But the second I went to school, it was a different world. I’d be listening to Destiny’s Child, Usher and the Backstreet Boys. It wasn’t until college that I really found the balance between the two worlds.’ – Vidya Vox

‘It went way beyond just sex with Catherine. It was more like recognizing a time of shared destiny of our souls. We were both born to climb, and we each glimpsed the possibility of the perfect partner in the other.’ – Jeff Lowe

‘I thought it was destiny that I was going to play basketball.’ – Derrick Favors

‘Destiny wasn’t on the side of Rajiv Kapoor. Worse actors than him have succeeded in this industry.’ – Raza Murad

‘I never planned to become an actor but destiny had its own plans.’ – Rituparna Sengupta

‘I have been offered several Bengali films. Due to destiny and good luck, ‘Noukadubi’ will be my first.’ – Riya Sen

‘Everything that happens is according to destiny.’ – Ayesha Takia

‘Those lumpen mercenaries who make money on the back of the destiny of all, those who call for invasion, those who continuously offend in words and acts… would be well advised that this people’s patience has limits.’ – Miguel Diaz-Canel

‘It is said that Cuba is not a priority for the United States… That begs the question why then are there laws… with the objective to attack and to try and control the destiny of Cuba.’ – Miguel Diaz-Canel

‘I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take.’ – Bebe Buell

‘I would like to think of myself as destiny’s child.’ – Nikki Tamboli

‘You make your own destiny.’ – Ncuti Gatwa

‘I guess it’s a lovely thought, isn’t it, that the person you’re meant to be with was one of your first loves all along. That whole destiny thing.’ – Sarah Harding

‘I became a free agent in 1999. I retired, that’s how I got out of my contract. From that moment on, I’ve always been in control of my own destiny.’ – Frank Shamrock

‘It’s incredible how passionate people are about having the tools to control their own destiny.’ – Andy Jassy

‘What I love about Bridgerton’ though is that the women in it do have their own agency within the context of the time. In fact, Daphne is actually quite a feminist character because she’s in control of her destiny.’ – Phoebe Dynevor

‘I believe that history will record Inspiration4 as a pivotal moment in space exploration, as another important step towards humanity’s next great rendezvous with destiny out in space.’ – Jared Isaacman

‘Once that cage shuts, I’m the one in control of my destiny.’ – Matt Serra

‘Can’t fight destiny. It’s my destiny to be a world champion.’ – Cody Garbrandt

‘I’ve never believed in my own political manifest destiny.’ – John Fetterman

‘Everybody has his own destiny.’ – Andrei Arlovski

‘I make my own schedule, I control my destiny, I get what I work for, and the money is great.’ – Jim Breuer

‘I realized I don’t want anyone to control my destiny, whether it’s a network TV show or not. I would rather invest in my own projects and if they fail, they fail on their own merits, not because somebody else mangled it.’ – Jim Breuer

‘On stage, you have the instant reaction. I’m in control of my own destiny up there. If I fail, I can always say, ‘I should have read that audience better. I don’t know why I went in that direction.’ In the commercial world, you’re not writing your character.’ – Jim Breuer

‘I don’t believe in destiny. But what I do think is that if you listen with your ears, and look with your eyes, something that doesn’t appear to be an opportunity can lead to one.’ – Arlene Phillips

‘Each man ought to be granted the dignity and respect to decide his own destiny.’ – Madison Cawthorn

‘I realised that you just don’t know about destiny. You think you are in control of your fate but, really, you are not. There are other powers at work. You don’t get to see the full picture until decades later.’ – Angus Macfadyen

‘Continuing the legacy of Elijah E. Cummings requires that we fulfill our destiny to fight for the world as it should be.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Like I talked about, I’m not gonna let something like COVID get in the way of stopping me from obtaining my destiny.’ – Caleb Plant

‘I’ve never known a day of my life that I didn’t want to sing country music. I really did always know that it was my destiny.’ – Carly Pearce

‘I believe everybody is in control of their own destiny.’ – James Bowen

‘What happened in ’96, unequivocally, is the biggest gut punch. I still believe the destiny of the Atlanta Braves changed that year.’ – John Smoltz

‘I believe a lot in destiny and don’t want to limit myself to being a playback singer alone.’ – Rahul Vaidya

‘I just think ‘Destiny’ itself is great, so I would definitely love to be in the world of ‘Destiny’ – and be me. And not even a Titan, or a Warlock, or a Hunter.’ – Caleb McLaughlin

‘Every film has its own destiny.’ – Harshvardhan Kapoor

‘You cannot change destiny.’ – Dharmendra

‘I will stand against WEF policies that undermine our sovereignty, erode our freedom, and attempt to shape our destiny into their post-nationalist state.’ – Leslyn Lewis

‘Football’s got to own its own outcome and build its own platform and by becoming the Netflix of football you control your own destiny.’ – Simon Jordan

‘I have always said it is my destiny to come back to West Ham and I never change my opinion.’ – Paolo di Canio

‘I knew that everyone here had a great deal of confidence in me, so I chose PSG because it is an incredible environment. There is an extraordinary team, huge ambitions, so all of these things meant that PSG was part of my destiny.’ – Gianluigi Donnarumma

‘My grandparents were patriots who had to be urgent about the promise of America for their eleven children. The promise that if they worked hard and played by the rules that their children would never have to see sharecropping as their destiny.’ – Laphonza Butler