Quotes about Destiny
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
- Victor Hugo
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
- CS Lewis
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
- Herman Melville
Only He who made man makes man happy.
- St. Augustine
For man plans, but God arranges.
- Thomas a Kempis
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
- Euripides
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
- AW Tozer
In life, man proposes, God disposes.
- Aldous Huxley
Man is man, and master of his fate.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson