Destiny

10 quotes.

• Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.

  Benjamin Disraeli

• The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

  William Shakespeare

• 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 is no 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. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

  Ambrose Bierce

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

  Yiddish Proverb

• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

• Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

  John Oliver Hobbes

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

  French Proverb

• 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 S. Marden

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