Quotes About Destiny

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.