Quotes About Destiny

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.

in the shipwreck of life — for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes

Vivid, pues, y sed dichosos, hijos queridos de mi corazón, y no olvidéis nunca que hasta el día en que Dios se digne descifrar el porvenir al hombre, toda la sabiduría humana estará resumida en dos palabras: ¡Confiar y esperar! Vuestro amigo, Edmundo Dantes, Conde de Montecristo.

D'Artagnan is right," said Athos. "Behold our three leaves of absence, which come from M. de Treville; and here are three hundred pistoles, which come from I know not where. Let us go and be killed where we are told to go. Is life worth so many questions? D'Artagnan, I am ready to follow you.

It was one of those events which decide the life of a man;

D'Artagnan admiró de qué hilos frágiles y desconocidos están a veces suspendidos los destinos de un pueblo y la vida de los hombres.

The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville—the counsels being thrown into the bargain.

D'Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. He

And why do you represent Providence? ... Why do you remember when it forgets?

You cannot control circumstances, my dear sir; 'man proposes, and God disposes.

Dantès descended, murmuring the supreme word of human philosophy: 'Perhaps.

Hush, La Carconte. It is God's pleasure that things should be so.

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore, deprived of sense and perhaps dead, he gave a sigh for that unaccountable destiny which leads men to destroy each other for the interests of people who are strangers to them and who often do not even know that they exist.

How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.

Nevertheless, many times during that evening she despaired of destiny, and of herself. She didn't invoke God, as we know, but she had faith in the genius of evil, that vast sovereignty that reigns over all the details of human life, a power so great that, as in the Arabian fable, it needs no more than a single pomegranate seed from which to reconstruct a ruined world. Once she'd readied herself to receive Felton

Vos sois hijo mío, Dantés! —exclamó el anciano—. Sois el hijo de mi prisión. Mi estado me condenaba al celibato, y Dios os envió a mí para consuelo juntamente del hombre que no podía ser padre, y del preso que no podía ser libre.

Alexandre Dumas

par un de ces bonheurs inespérés qui arrivent parfois à ceux sur lesquels la rigueur du sort s'est longtemps lassée

Vi sono esistenze predestinate in cui un primo sbaglio sconvolge l'intero avvenire.

Mas, se não há inimigos, talvez haja invejosos: aos dezenove anos, vai ser nomeado capitão, o que na sua situação é um posto bem elevado… Vai se casar com uma bela mulher que o ama, o que é uma felicidade rara em qualquer lugar da terra… Esses dois favores de seu destino podem ter lhe proporcionado invejosos.