Quotes About Destiny

Tenía la vida por delante. Siempre tenemos la vida por delante. Lo que queda de ella.

The ordinary man is destined for service, and he has no objection to be an instrument, if he feels that a master guides him.

The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.

One's past is not one's destiny, and it is self-serving to pretend that it is. If henceforth I were miserable, it would be my own fault: and I vowed never to waste my substance on petty domestic conflict.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

The best of all things for earthly men is not to be born and not to see the beams of the bright sun; but if born, then as quickly as possible to pass the gates of Hades, and to lie deep buried.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit

Reply to Objection 4: Even if by a special privilege their predestination were revealed to some, it is not fitting that it should be revealed to everyone; because, if so, those who were not predestined would despair; and security would beget negligence in the predestined.

porque el hombre está dirigido a Dios, en cuanto a un fin que sobrepasa la comprensión de su razón:

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.

There was, however, one drawback to his happy lot: he was not permitted to live beyond a certain period, and if, when he had attained the age of twenty-five years, he still survived, the priests drowned him in the sacred cistern and then buried him in the temple of Serapis.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall."

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

How Teufelsdrockh, now at actual hand-grips with Destiny herself, may have comported himself among these Musical and Literary dilettanti of both sexes, like a hungry lion invited to a feast of chickenweed, we can only conjecture. Perhaps in expressive silence, and abstinence: otherwise if the lion, in such case, is to feast at all, it cannot be on the chickenweed, but only on the chickens.

Thus has the bewildered Wanderer to stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim Desert, this once-fair world of his; wherein is heard only the howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men; and no Pillar of Cloud by day, and no Pillar of Fire by night, any longer guides the Pilgrim. To such length has the spirit of Inquiry carried him.

As good Archbishop Loménie was wont to say: 'There are so many accidents; and it needs but one to save us.'—How many to destroy us?

To the wisest of them, what we must call the wisest, man is properly an Accident under the sky.