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Quotes About Destiny

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
~ John F. Kennedy
That power Which erring men call Chance.
~ John Milton
Man does what he can, and God what he will.
~ John Ray
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
~ Joseph Addison
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
~ Lucy Stone
For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]
~ Ludovico Ariosto
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
~ Mario Andretti
It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
~ Mario Puzo
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
~ Mark Twain
What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
~ Mitch Albom
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
~ Morris West
Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
~ Paulo Coelho
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
~ Pietro Aretino
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
~ Plautus
Man proposes, God disposes.
~ Plautus
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.
~ Publilius Syrus
The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]
~ Ovid
Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]
~ Ovid