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"If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools."

Janet Morris

War, Faith, Danger, Duty, Destiny
2

"It's in the god's hands"

Janet Morris, Bashir

Faith, Destiny, Fatalism
3

"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Fate, Passion, Nature, Destiny, Reproduction
4

"War's balance will prevail."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

War, Mercy, Destiny
5

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Destiny
6

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Epictetus

Destiny
7

Anatomy is destiny.

Sigmund Freud

Destiny
8

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Albert Einstein

Destiny
9

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

Destiny
10

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Aleister Crowley

Destiny
11

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Destiny
12

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

Destiny
13

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

E. M. Forster

Destiny
14

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny
15

Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

War, Mercy, Destiny, Struggle, theomachy
16

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

Destiny
17

Hug my crack.

Janet Morris, Critias

Leaders and Leadership, Anger, Free will, Military professionalism, Destiny, Insults More
18

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it

Leo Buscaglia

Destiny
19

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Destiny
20

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

Frederick II of Prussia

Destiny
21

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Destiny
22

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Fate, Destiny
23

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

Tony Robbins

Destiny
24

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

God, Courage, War, Faith, Honour, Destiny, Divine Intervention
25

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard

Destiny
26

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

Alfred A. Montapert

Destiny
27

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.

Tony Robbins

Destiny
28

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

Destiny
29

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Destiny
30

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Henry Miller

Destiny
31

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Destiny
32

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Simone Weil

Destiny
33

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Destiny
34

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny
35

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison Swett Marden

Destiny
36

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

John F. Kennedy

Destiny
37

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s.

Epictetus

Destiny
38

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny
39

Such as we are made of, such we be.

William Shakespeare

Destiny
40

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny
41

The destiny of man is in his own soul

Herodotus

Destiny
42

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.

James Allen

Destiny
43

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

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Destiny
44

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

Tyron edwards

Destiny
45

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Destiny
46

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Destiny
47

We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.

Destiny
48

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

Samuel Beckett

Destiny

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"If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools."

"It's in the god's hands"

"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

"War's balance will prevail."

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Anatomy is destiny.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

Hug my crack.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.

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.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

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

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

Such as we are made of, such we be.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

The destiny of man is in his own soul

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.

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

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

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.

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