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Quotes About Destiny

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.
~ George R. R. Martin
Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.
~ George R. R. Martin
A man could not always be where he belonged, though.
~ George R. R. Martin
There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.
~ Gerd de Ley
Every man is the maker of his own fortune
~ Gertrude Stein
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.
~ Lloyd Alexander
The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went
~ Lora Leigh
Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
~ Lord Byron
Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
~ Marcus Aurelius
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
~ Mark Twain
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.
~ Mary Stewart
Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.
~ Matthew Henry
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.
~ Max Muller
Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.
~ Meg Rosoff
Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan