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Destiny

«Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.»
Author: Ignazio Silone (Journalist, Novelist) | About: Destiny | Keywords: cowardly, resigned
«Control your own destiny or someone else will.»
Author: Jack Welch | About: Destiny
«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.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan (Orator, Politician) | About: Chance, Destiny | Keywords: waited
«Don't forget your history nor your destiny»
«Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | About: Destiny, Life | Keywords: carried
«Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | About: Destiny | Keywords: excuse, tyrant
«Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.»

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