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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

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.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

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

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

You shape your own destiny.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

To be a Jew is a destiny.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.