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Quotes About Destiny

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
~ James F. Cooper
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
~ James Russell Lowell
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
~ James Russell Lowell
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.
~ Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him.
~ Jennifer Crusie
There is no perfect man! I think I'm meant to have many soulmates.
~ Jessica Simpson
Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord
~ Jim Butcher
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.
~ John Heywood
Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
~ John Masefield
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
~ John Milton
Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.
~ John Steinbeck
Writing the next lines and words of your life is something only you can do. We write our own stories.
~ Kim Pape
Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!
~ Brian Tracy
Every single moment is a coincidence.
~ Douglas Coupland
Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.
~ Frederick Lenz
My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.
~ Kenny Troutt
Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
~ Shawn Johnson
I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.
~ Janice Hahn
God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.
~ Heather McDonald