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Destiny
«If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.»
«Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.»
«It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.»
Author: Jean Nidetch
| About:
Chance,
Choice,
Destiny
| Keywords:
by choice, chance, choice, Choicer, destiny, determines, take chances
«If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you»
Author: William Irwin Thompson
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
create, destiny, fate, inflicted, inflicting, the Fates
«It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Common sense,
Destiny,
Education
| Keywords:
Compulsory education, practically, settled
«If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cruelty,
Destiny,
Freedom,
Slavery
| Keywords:
abused, cruelties, scorned, The opposition, Tho, tied, tied up
«In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.»