Quotes About Destiny

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

A man can die but once.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

God laughs at men's plans.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Man should make himself a lot of good karma.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.