Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

It's never guaranteed for somebody to be successful. It just really be God.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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

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

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

I am a great believer in luck.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

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

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

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

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.