I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny. – Enrico Caruso
I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn’t come out yet. – Casper Van Dien
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. – Friedrich Schiller
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power. – Michael Dirda
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. – Dennis Banks
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. – Friedrich Schiller
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham
Harlem was a development, a developer’s dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem’s destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place. – David Levering Lewis
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic. – Gloria Vanderbilt
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug. – Max Frisch
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. – Norman Cousins
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny. – Marie-Chantal Claire
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I’m a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I’d be miserable and would feel like I wasn’t seeing through my personal destiny. – Idina Menzel
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. – Paulo Coelho
It makes common sense to be managed by results and it’s freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I’m so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone. – Maynard Webb
Jesus viewed his own destiny – to be glorified in and through death – as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death. – John Ortberg
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look. – Louise Mensch
It is difficult to understand why I am so famous. I never thought I wanted to be an actress. I never thought about it. I think it is my destiny to be in this business. – Li Bingbing
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. – Muhammad Iqbal
I’m just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that. – Kelly Rowland
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. – Muhammad Iqbal
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. – Kurt Huber