Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, and I was sure I should not fail.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

That man [Sir Sydney Smith] made me miss my destiny.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.