Fortunate Happenstance Quotes

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

It's better to be lucky than good.

It's better sometimes to be lucky than good.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

As good luck would have it.

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

Luck is one of the most important things in the world and really has a role to play in everything, and in marriage, I've been lucky enough to be married to the same girl for all these years.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.