Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

—Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies arising from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human...

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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

—Sigmund Freud

If youth knew; if age could.

—Sigmund Freud

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

—Sigmund Freud

We are only the beginning. I am only a beginner. I was successful in digging up buried monuments from the substrata of the mind. But where I have discovered a few temples, others may discover a continent.

—Sigmund Freud

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

—Sigmund Freud

More quotations tagged with “destiny”

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

—Oprah Winfrey

A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.

—Marshall Ganz

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

—John F. Kennedy