Quotes About Destiny

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.