“'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny”
Paul Tillich
“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”
Fidel Castro
“Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
William Shakespeare
“The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt