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Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

– Frances E. Willard

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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

– Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people

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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

– J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website

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Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

– George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

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If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

– Unknown

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Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny.

– Unknown

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

– Schiller

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Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

– Tyron Edwards

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Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

– John Oliver Hobbes

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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

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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

– Henri-Frederic Amiel

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But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

– John F. Kennedy

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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.

– Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

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'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

– E. R. Bulwer-Lytton

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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

– Andr Malraux

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

– George Santayana

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They often say, “What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?”. Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

– Kedar Joshi

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I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

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The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

– Johann von Goethe

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We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

– Sir Walter Scott

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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