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"Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1."	Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength."	"Billy"
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable."	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
"Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny."	George Dana Boardman
"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."	Les(ter Louis) Brown
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. 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 not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived."	William Jennings Bryan
"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress."	John Calvin
"[Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?"	Joan B. Campbell
"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."	Wanda Carter
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."	Pierre Corneille
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."	Norman Cousins
"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."	Norman Cousins
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."	Quentin Crisp
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."	Daniel Defoe
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Francois Mauriac	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	Gamal Abdel Nasser
George Dana Boardman	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Golda Meir
Hal Lee Luyah	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
Joan B. Campbell	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Calvin
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt	Kim Hubbard
Laurence Hope	Les(ter Louis) Brown	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Marcel Marceau	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Norman Cousins
Omar Khayyám	Orison Swett Marden	Oscar Wilde
Pierre Corneille	Quentin Crisp	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Logan	Roy Goodman	R. D. Laing
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