Quotes About Destiny

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.