Martti Ahtisaari Quotes

I am a great believer in luck.

Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

So much in politics is luck and timing.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

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

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?