Quotes About Circumstance

Because a grumpy mood that seems to come out of the blue is so inexplicable, I think we go around looking for something to feel annoyed about, some external circumstance to dislike in order to discharge that energy. Even

Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.

Much of life is time and circumstance, I see that now. Roy came into my life at the time when I needed a man like him. Would I have galloped into this love affair if I had never left Atlanta? I don't know. But how I feel love and understand love are two different things.

For me, character comes from a specific condition or situation. I cannot really define a character outside that situation.

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

What is luck but something made to run out.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

Everything in my life was luck.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.