D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Destiny, is a word. Meant for just, you and me - The Lovers”
Source: Coming Home
“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”
“Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.”
“Destiny is always dark.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.”
“Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“Destiny is another way of saying you don't know, isn't it?”
Source: I Am Not Your Chosen One
“Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.”
Source: Protect Your Achilles Heel: Crafting Armor for the New Age at Work
“Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you.”
Source: Demon King's Desire
“Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.”
“Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.”
“Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination.”
“Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.”
Source: A Girl's Adventures
“Destiny is determined by deeds, so do the deed, and pay the mockery no heed.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Destiny is fantasy invented by the weak.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Destiny is fate manifested.”
“Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.”
Source: Gossip Girl 3: All I Want is Everything
“Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.”
Source: Hollow City
“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”
“Destiny is like a boulder. Bulky and hard to move. Its easier to leave it alone than to try to change it. But that never kept anyone from trying. Trust me, I'm a professional.”
Source: The Hanging Girl
“Destiny is like a Christmas present with your name on it. It's yours. It doesn't belong to anyone else.”
“Destiny is manifested only through action.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Destiny is measured in inches.”
Source: Hidden Current
“Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change.”
Source: Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
“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.”
Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
“Destiny is not a straightaway. It's cluttered with corners and all of them are dark. We make the turns we do...and find ourselves where we are.”
Source: The Savior
“Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“Destiny is not always preordained. Life is about making choices. Our lives are the sum of all the choices we make, the bridges we cross, and the ones we burn. Our souls cast long shadows over many people, even after we are gone. Fate, luck, and providence are the consequence of our freedom of choice, not the determinants. When justice is served by following our principles, making good decisions brings us inner peace.”
Source: Adoption Detective: Memoir of an Adopted Child
“Destiny is not arbitrary or inimical; it is orderly and reactional. It gives us reactions to our own past actions.”
Source: Wisdom from The Ramayana: On Life and Relationships
“Destiny is not cast in stone, nor is it written in the stars. You alone must choose the path to your future.
Grace Willows Everlasting Love”
“Destiny is not fate, it's navigation.”
“Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.”
“Destiny is not one push, she thought as she waited to cross a quiet street on that cold Paris evening years later, but a thousand small moments that through insight and hard work you line up in the right direction, like the magnet does the metal shavings.”
Source: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
“Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.”
“Destiny is not set in stone. Destiny is something that is never set in stone, for it is within one's own hands to make their destiny.”
Source: Where the Pandemic Started
“Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.”
“Destiny is not the rush; it's patience, perseverance, of seasons, of years.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“Destiny is not what limits her.”
Source: Extracts From: The Second Sex
“Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Destiny is not written until you accept things to happen.”
Source: My Quest For Happy Life
“Destiny is obligated by universal law to concede to the demands of unwavering faith.”
Source: Blessed And Unstoppable: Your Blueprint For Success
“Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.”
“Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.”
“Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with.”
Source: Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval (Large Print 16pt)
“Destiny is shaped by thoughts, influenced by choices, and executed by hands.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.”
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“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 surely propelled by desires. Desires push and pull you to make big moves and landslide changes, but they don’t propel you to the people who will help shape those desires. The street directions of our life’s path are difficult to read. They aren’t intuitive... they’re the product of the minutiae of our daily lives: accidental meetings and chances that happen while you’re getting fed or finding shelter. And on the road, that means the influence of complete strangers.”
Source: Magic
“Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.”