Quotes About Destiny

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."(Christian D. Larson)

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

There's place and means for every man alive.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

Calamity was ordained for man.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins