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Quotes About Serendipity

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.
~ Dick Gregory
Some folk want their luck buttered.
~ Thomas Hardy
They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.
~ Omar Sharif
I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
~ Paul Newman
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.
~ James Fixx
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
~ Tony Robbins
Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
~ Sophia Loren
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
~ Edmond H. Fischer
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
~ Amy Tan
You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.
~ Casey Stengel
Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.
~ Freeman Dyson
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
~ Hilary Swank
She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
~ Lincoln Kirstein
We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.
~ Paulo Coelho
I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
~ Anne Tyler
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
People make their own luck.
~ David Liederman
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
~ Jesse Jackson
I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
~ Marat Safin
Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
~ Thomas Perry
We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Luck is the grand equalizer.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb