Quotes About Circumstance

I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.

Stuff happens in football. Sometimes it goes in your favour, sometimes it doesn't.

I was born trying to figure out why other kids were just playing in a circle. What are you doing in the circle? Duck, Duck, Goose? What is the goose supposed to do? You could be organizing; you could be producing products that are for sale. You have a circle, but how are you utilizing it?

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

Life is an impossible twist of choice and circumstance. One rarely exists without the other.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You

Seems to me we work out our destinies subject to a lot of accident, incident, and whim.

There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.

necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.

Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.

A man was lying in the middle of the room, in a circle drawn on the ground with a piece of plaster from the wall, almost naked, his clothes having fallen into tatters. He was drawing very precise geometrical lines in the circle and appeared as absorbed in solving his problem as Archimedes when he was killed by one of Marcellus' soldiers.