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Quotes About Destiny

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
~ Marcus Aurelius
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
~ Menander
I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?
~ Mort Sahl
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
~ Pablo Neruda
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
~ Warren Buffett
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
~ Aeschylus
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.
~ Appius Claudius Caecus
Man proposes, and God disposes.
~ Ludovico Ariosto
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
~ Mark Twain
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
~ Paul Tillich
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.
~ Philip Wylie
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.
~ Plato
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
~ Plato
For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.
~ Omar Sharif
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
~ Robert Greene
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
~ Henry David Thoreau