Determine Destiny Quotes & Sayings

The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck — Laxmi Hariharan

What you choose today will determine who you are tomorrow. — Tim Fargo

"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life; They govern what we become as we do it. — Joan D. Chittister

What you think is who you are;
what you do is who you become.
Your beliefs determine your actions;
your actions determine your destiny. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that decisions determine destiny. — Thomas S. Monson

Who do people say the Son of Man is? ... But what about you? Who do you say I am?' (Mt 16:13,15). In the end, people's answer to this question will be the only thing that matters; it alone will determine people's eternal destiny. — Andreas J. Kostenberger

God determine the appointed time and boundaries of influence for every man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What we see and hear is what we think about. What we think about is what we feel. What we feel influences our reactions. Reactions become habits and it is our habits that determine our destiny. — Bob Gass

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live. — Robert Kennedy

Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny. — Thomas S. Monson

Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny. — Ronald Reagan

Daily deeds determine destiny's. — Barney Matthews

Decisions Determine the directions of your destiny — Bobby Sullivan

Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination. — Mandy Hale

We all have received the divine injunction: 'Follow thou me.' It guided Peter. It motivated Paul. It can determine our personal destiny. Can we make the decision to follow in righteousness and truth the Redeemer of the world? With his help, a rebellious boy can become an obedient man, a wayward girl can cast aside the old self and begin anew. Indeed, the gospel of Jesus Christ can change lives. — Thomas S. Monson

The right to determine your individual destiny belongs in your hands, and no one else's. — Ramez Naam

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will ... And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger, fear or revenge. Do not fear, what is yours to use. Only beware the ends to which it is turned, and know the means will truly determine the outcome. — Derek Donais

While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA is not the heart's destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in your deck, but experience deals the hand you can play. Scientists have proven, for example, that good mothering can override a disadvantageous temperament.(152) — Thomas Lewis

Nuclear wars are simply too dangerous to fight, so it is economic might that will largely determine the destiny of nations. — Anonymous

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none. — Woodrow Wilson

We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not in our power to determine our destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny. — Roy T. Bennett

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. — Huey Newton

By choosing to declare what's good and evil, you seek to determine your own destiny. — Wm. Paul Young

The whole of creation exists in you, and it is your destiny to become increasingly aware of its infinite wonders and to experience ever greater and grander portions of it. If creation is finished, and all events are taking place now, the question that springs naturally to the mind is "what determines your time track?" That is, what determines the events which you encounter? And the answer is your concept of yourself. Concepts determine the route that attention follows. Here is a good test to prove this fact. Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows. You will observe that as long as you remain faithful to your assumption, so long will your attention be confronted with images clearly related to that assumption. — Neville Goddard

Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes.' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be. — Thomas S. Monson

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny. — Thomas S. Monson

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices. — Caroline Myss

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

Lord our time on earth is in your hands.
Lord determine and guide our steps. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak. — Attila The Hun

Your mind and your luck determine your destiny! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny. — Ezra Taft Benson

Don't let your past determine your destiny. — Confucius

Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life. — Ronald Reagan

Tell your daughters how you love your body.
Tell them how they must love theirs.

Tell them to be proud of every bit of themselves -
from their tiger stripes to the soft flesh of their thighs,
whether there is a little of them or a lot,
whether freckles cover their face or not,
whether their curves are plentiful or slim,
whether their hair is thick, curly, straight, long or short.

Tell them how they inherited
their ancestors, souls in their smiles,
that their eyes carry countries
that breathed life into history,
that the swing of their hips
does not determine their destiny.

Tell them never to listen when bodies are critiqued.
Tell them every woman's body is beautiful
because every woman's soul is unique. — Nikita Gill

Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions create your habits. Your habits form your character. Your character determines your destiny. — Brad Willis

Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability ... they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque. — Arthur Koestler

The courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine Destiny. — Thomas S. Monson

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny. — Russell M. Nelson

Your destiny has not been decided by others, but by you. Fate determines our choices; but our choices determine fate. You will carry it out because you choose to. — J.R.C. Salter

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. — Bobby Seale

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines. — Daisaku Ikeda

All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny. — Randy Gage

The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind. — Peter Garrett

We determine the destiny of our nation — Sunday Adelaja

The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. — Wilder Penfield

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny. — Anthony Robbins

What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity. — Philip Yancey

I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny can kiss my ass. If I want something badly enough, I can have it. If I focus, sacrifice, there is nothing I can't do. — Emma Chase

There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically. — Bobby Sands

I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny. — Henry Samueli

NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny. — Les Brown

We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Your deep driving desires and actions determine your destiny. — Debasish Mridha

Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our choices determine our destiny. — A.R. Bernard

According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity. — Philip Yancey

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort. — Santonu Kumar Dhar

You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why. — Michael Hyatt

We want freedom,'" I say. "'We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities.'" "Say — Angie Thomas

DNA is not the heart's destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in your deck, but experience deals the hand you can play. — Thomas Lewis

Others may predict my future but only I can determine my destiny. — Jeffrey Fry

You determine the destiny of the nation, this is your time — Sunday Adelaja

I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names. — Michelle Moran

He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny. — Howard Thurman

It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape in speech so that we are obliged to give them the reality of accomplishment. — Maurice Druon

Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed-the courage to say no, the courage to say yes. Decisions do determine destiny. I plead with you to make a determination right here, right now, not to deviate from the path which will lead to our goal: eternal life with our Father in Heaven. — Thomas S. Monson

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. — Etty Hillesum

At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life
what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home
none of that is an excuse ... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future. — Barack Obama

Choices not chance determine your destiny. — Barbara Johnson

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny. — Clare Oliver

Forgive me, father, I am not certain what my own wishes are. I shall always take pleasure in study, how could it be otherwise? But I do not believe that my life will be limited to study. A man's wishes may not always determine his destiny, his mission; perhaps there are other predetermining factors. — Hermann Hesse

The choices we make, determine our destiny — Brandon October

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are. — John Perkins

Decisions determine destiny. - Frederick Speakman — G. Michael Hopf

It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leader's credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil. — Ravi Zacharias

James: I think people pretty much determine their fates. I think people choose their lives.
Lucy: I don't know. I think sometimes things happen to people that are beyond their control. Things that they don't want to happen.
James: I know what you're saying. Sometimes random shit happens, but for the most part, people are where they are in life because they chose to be there. — Kristen Tracy

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. — Roh Moo-hyun

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

Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality — Jordan Petersen

We all have certain desires and undesired outcomes related to whatever possible course and attitude we take in life, whether it be at the larger macro scale (what shall I do with the rest of my life?) or at the micro level (as in, what route shall I take to work this morning). These include all the myriad choices we make each hour and each day. These choices determine our karma and our destiny. It's no accident, nor any great mystery, how this evolves; although one would have to utterly omniscient to understand all the many gross and subtle interconnections and causative links that determine happenings and outcomes. — Lama Surya Das

No one could be able to lift the limit you've put against yourself. You've the final say where you would like to conclude your journey. — Assegid Habtewold