It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
“Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery.”
“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.”
Beneath the excuse lies your destiny.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
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.
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.