Quotes About Circumstance

We do not choose our destinies.

He had chosen a hard life... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

Kemiskinan itu bukan alasan, dia adalah satu kondisi. Seperti gravitasi, dia mempengaruhi semuanya

Know thine opportunity.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?

An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

True enough. I say this all the time. Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this." "No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death...

The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

Chance created the situation

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.