Stefan Zweig Quotes

Fate has blessed me.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

We are the playthings of the gods.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.