Quotes about Destiny
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.
- Joyce Meyer
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.
- Edith Wharton
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
- Marcus Aurelius
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.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
- Paul Tillich
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
- John Tillotson
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
- William Faulkner
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot