Quotes About Circumstance

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.

When mass failure overtakes a nation, such as the 1929 world business depression, the circumstance is in perfect harmony with nature's plan to break up man's habits and give out fresh opportunities.

otherwise the odds would be too low to get here just by luck.

Well, boys," she said, "here it is. The worst is happening at last.

It was a circumstance to be noted on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were several in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever