O. Henry Quotes

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

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

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

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?

You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.

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

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

I believe a lot in destiny, and if destiny has it, then I will be seen in films.

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

If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

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.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

What is life, but one long risk?

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.