Tiny Quotes - Page 9

Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than any other person's. There is no royal road to success- no patent process by which the unsuccessful are to be magically transformed. . . . Rules and advice may greatly assist-and they undoubtedly do this-but the real work must be accomplished by the individual. He or she must carve out his or her own destiny.

I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own hands instead of waiting for it. You have to go out and force it. You need to go out and take life, and shape your life and destiny the way you need it. I hope I can pass that message along.

We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples so that we may enjoy the right to maintain our culture, our heritage and our land, as a united Australia.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

I wanna rule my destiny.

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.

It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

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.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it’s time for a mutiny.

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.