You shape your own destiny.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

You shape your own destiny.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

To be a Jew is a destiny.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

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.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

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

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Character is destiny.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

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.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.