John Steinbeck Quotes

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

In short, Luck's always to blame.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

The world runs on luck.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.