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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Lawrence Block Quotes |
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“Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.”
Douglas Adams Quotes |
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“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.”
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“I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.”
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“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.”
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“It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.”
Jean Nidetch Quotes |
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“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”
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“Truly some men there be
That live always in great horrour,
And say it goeth by destiny
To hang or wed: both hath one hour;
And whether it be, I am well sure,
Hanging is better of the twain;
Sooner done, and shorter pain.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: The School-house, published about 1542
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“My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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“For rarely man escapes his destiny.
[It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]”
Ludovico Ariosto Quotes Source: Orlando Furioso (XVIII, 58)
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“Life treads on life, and heart on heart;
We press too close in church and mart
To keep a dream or grave apart.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: A Vision of Poets (conclusion)
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“There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets
to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct
from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our
seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own
influences.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: What Will He Do With It? (bk. II, ch. XIV)
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“For I am a weed,
Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,
Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 2)
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“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, and space out of time.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Works and Days
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“Character is fate. (Destiny)”
Heraclitus of Ephesus Quotes Source: in Mullach's "Fragmenta Philosophurum Groecorum"
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“No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 623), (Bryant's translation)
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“All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XII, l. 31), (Pope's translation)
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“The future works out great men's destinies;
The present is enough for common souls,
Who, never looking forward, are indeed
Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age
Are petrified forever.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Act for Truth
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“We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
Our work is not design, but destiny.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Clytemnestra (pt. XIX)
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“We are what we must
And not what we would be. I know that one hour
Assures not another. The will and the power
Are diverse.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto III, st. 19)
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“Unseen hands delay
The coming of what oft seems close in ken,
And, contrary, the moment, when we say
"'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Thomas Munster to Martin Luther (l. 382)
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“They only fall, that strive to move,
Or lose, that care to keep.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: The Wanderer (bk. III, Futility, st. 6)
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“The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
Close after us, forever.”
Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) Quotes Source: April
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“Every man meets his Waterloo at last.”
Wendell Phillips Quotes Source: Speech
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