Neil Armstrong Quotes

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

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

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.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

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.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

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

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

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

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.