Quotes About Destiny

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Man is man, and master of his fate.

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.