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It is time for the Syrian people to determine their own destiny. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Research is showing us that personality can so be tied to your destiny. – Sharon Bergquist	Found on CNN 10 years ago
Crimea is not an economic issue, when we speak about Crimea ... we realise that it is our history, our destiny and our pain too ... and that there is a great number of our people (living there), who have voted this year to return to the Russian Federation. – Dmitry Medvedev	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We will remain forever masters of our own destiny. – Emmerson Mnangagwa	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
There are those to say a faith is something beyond our command, but destiny is not our own. I know, our faith lives in us. We only have to be brave enough to see it. – Brave	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.” – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. – Tony Robbins	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Character is our destiny. – Heraclitus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands. – J. William Fulbright	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the days of the great struggle against the foreign enemies, who for nearly three years have tried to enslave our fatherland, the Lord God has been pleased to send down on Russia a new heavy trial. Internal popular disturbances threaten to have a disastrous effect on the future conduct of this persistent war. The destiny of Russia, the honor of our heroic army, the welfare of the people and the whole future of our dear fatherland demand that the war should be brought to a victorious conclusion whatever the cost. The cruel enemy is making his last efforts, and already the hour approaches when our glorious army together with our gallant allies will crush him. In these decisive days in the life of Russia, We thought it Our duty of conscience to facilitate for Our people the closest union possible and a consolidation of all national forces for the speedy attainment of victory. In agreement with the Imperial Duma We have thought it well to renounce the Throne of the Russian Empire and to – Nicholas II of Russia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The destiny of man is in his own soul. – Herodotus	added by acronimous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 11 years ago
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	added by anonymous 11 years ago
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	added by anonymous 11 years ago
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays. – Omar Khayyám	added by anonymous 11 years ago
There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 11 years ago
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence. – Luis Buñuel	added by anonymous 11 years ago
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. – André Maurois	added by anonymous 11 years ago
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. – André Maurois	added by anonymous 11 years ago

It is time for the Syrian people to determine their own destiny.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Research is showing us that personality can so be tied to your destiny.

– Sharon Bergquist

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Crimea is not an economic issue, when we speak about Crimea ... we realise that it is our history, our destiny and our pain too ... and that there is a great number of our people (living there), who have voted this year to return to the Russian Federation.

– Dmitry Medvedev

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

We will remain forever masters of our own destiny.

– Emmerson Mnangagwa

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

There are those to say a faith is something beyond our command, but destiny is not our own. I know, our faith lives in us. We only have to be brave enough to see it.

– Brave

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”

– Victor Hugo

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

– Tony Robbins

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Character is our destiny.

– Heraclitus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

– J. William Fulbright

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

– William Jennings Bryan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In the days of the great struggle against the foreign enemies, who for nearly three years have tried to enslave our fatherland, the Lord God has been pleased to send down on Russia a new heavy trial. Internal popular disturbances threaten to have a disastrous effect on the future conduct of this persistent war. The destiny of Russia, the honor of our heroic army, the welfare of the people and the whole future of our dear fatherland demand that the war should be brought to a victorious conclusion whatever the cost. The cruel enemy is making his last efforts, and already the hour approaches when our glorious army together with our gallant allies will crush him. In these decisive days in the life of Russia, We thought it Our duty of conscience to facilitate for Our people the closest union possible and a consolidation of all national forces for the speedy attainment of victory. In agreement with the Imperial Duma We have thought it well to renounce the Throne of the Russian Empire and to

– Nicholas II of Russia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

– Herodotus

added by acronimous
10 years ago

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