Destiny is always dark. [ George Herbert ]
A man's destiny is always dark. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Character makes its own destiny. [ Mrs. Campbell Praed ]
Marriage is ever made by destiny. [ Chapman ]
We bear each one our own destiny. [ Virgil ]
Alas! we are the sport of destiny. [ Thackeray ]
For rarely man escapes his destiny. [ Ariosto ]
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
Marriage and hanging go by destiny. [ Proverb ]
Destiny: sinister burst of laughter! [ Victor Hugo ]
How circumscribed is woman's destiny! [ Goethe ]
We are but as the instrument of heaven. [ Owen Meredith ]
One country, one constitution, one destiny. [ Daniel Webster ]
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature. [ Disraeli ]
Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny. [ W. R. Alger ]
Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling. [ Proverb ]
This day we fashion destiny, our web of fate we spin. [ Whittier ]
Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny. [ Crashaw ]
He must stand high who would see his destiny to the end. [ Danish Proverb ]
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is never our lot. [ J. C. Weber ]
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned. [ Herder ]
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. [ Napoleon I ]
The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot. [ Richter ]
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. [ L. E. Landon ]
The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
The children of today will be the architects of our country's destiny in 1900. [ James A. Garfield ]
The wisest know at highest only how destiny is leading them, and are therewith content. [ Forster ]
Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. [ La Fontaine ]
The seal of suffering impressed upon our destiny announces in clear characters our high calling. [ De Gerando ]
Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny. [ Ed ]
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. [ Goethe ]
Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny. [ Schiller ]
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. [ Virgil ]
Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter. [ Pascal ]
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. [ Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ]
Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over doth endure the pains of evil destiny. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
Resolution is the youngest and dearest daughter of Destiny, and may win from the fond mother almost any favor she chooses to ask. [ Lowell ]
As the present character of a man, so his past, so his future. Who recollects distinctly his past adventures knows his destiny to come. [ Lavater ]
Human action is a seed of circumstances scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Beautiful is Peace! A lovely boy lies he reclining by a quiet rill. But war too has its honour, the promoter as it is of the destiny of man. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance, and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. [ Mark Hopkins ]
Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny, and your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]
The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved. Those who do not love them are still more in the wrong than those who love them too much. [ Rochebrune ]
Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. [ Scott ]
The law of the 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. [ G. D. Boardman ]
We are one nation, and their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]
Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. [ N. Lenau ]
Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest. [ Carlyle ]
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them: but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth. [ Hazlitt ]
There is power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements hold him to his task; what has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in use. [ R. W. Emerson ]
The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. [ Carlyle ]
We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Most people give up before they start because they think it is too hard, there is too much against me here, I can’t do this on my own, I don’t have the resources. I was on the back to work scheme when I applied. I didn’t have resources... It never occurred to me to fail. I always knew it was part of my destiny to do that thing. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show ]