The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Natural History of Intellect
There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny.
HAN SOLO, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Mrs. George William Fairfax, Sep. 12, 1758
No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.
