Seth Godin Quotes

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

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

It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

Everybody believes in chance.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.