Quotes About Destiny

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

It is the lot of man but once to die.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.