Bob Hope Quotes

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

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

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

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.

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

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

Few people realize that luck is created.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

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

I am a great believer in luck.

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.

Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.

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.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Everything in my life was luck.

The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.