We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
—Dag Hammarskjöld
You can never know about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part in your own destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
—Libba Bray in Going Bovine
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations officers.
—Daniel Boorstin
You have to choose the life you want. You have to take action and realize that you create your own destiny by making choices and sticking to them.
—Robin Bielman in Wild About Her Wingman
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
—Albert Ellis
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
—Theodore Roosevelt
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
—Aeschylus
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 Bulwer-Lytton
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
—John F. Kennedy
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.
—Lady Gaga
A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.
—Marshall Ganz
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
—Oprah Winfrey
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
—R. Stevens
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