Quotes About Destiny

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.