Nothing Happens By Accident Quotes

#1. In life, nothing happens by accident. Set a goal, believe in it and go all-in to achieve it.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#2. One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

Ramana Maharshi

#3. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

#5. I don't think that anything happens by coincidence ... No one is here by accident ... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason ...

James Redfield

#6. When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Patrick Stump

#7. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

Davone Bess

#8. Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. THe issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

Gabriel Cousens

#9. Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

Amy Grant

#10. When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

Dan Gilroy

#11. Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

Dick Butkus

#12. Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

Cesare Pavese

#13. When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.

Jason Lytle

#14. A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Howard Nemerov

#15. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does.

Eleanor Catton

#16. I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

John Britt Daniel

#17. Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

Albert M. Greenfield

#18. History happens," said the Doctor. "Even when I'm not around."

"Only by accident," said Kadiatu...

Ben Aaronovitch

#19. ...actual happiness only happens by accident

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.

Ronnie Apteker

#21. When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Serendipity happens when a well-trained mind looking for one things encounters something else: the unexpected.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#22. Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined ... or one great figure ... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Philip K. Dick

#23. I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called ... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older ... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.

William Lucking

#24. The first time it happens, it can be explained. Accident. Experiment. Fluke. Everything was confusing. The lines blurred.
The second time is when it really happens for the first time.

Leah Raeder

#25. This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only thing between them and a guillotine.

Max Barry

#26. You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

Paul Newman

#27. Love isn't an accident or something that just happens when you're not looking. Love is a choice, not a chance.

Autumn Doughton

#28. Life is not always what you expect. But life never happens by accident.

Helen Downing

#29. There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#30. A lucky man, I've always said, is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does. (Dick Mannering
19th century New Zealand goldfields magnate)

Eleanor Catton

#31. Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.

John Lennon

#32. Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill ... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.

George Carlin

#33. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

Roy Bennett

#34. Justice seldom happens by accident.

Patricia King

#35. A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

E.B. White

#36. Mentorship happens organically, and you can't just force it. Many men don't even know HOW to mentor, and often mentor others by accident. It's not a mentor's responsibility to mentor, it's the responsibility of the mentee to seek mentorship and appropriate it.

Josh Hatcher

#37. A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

Mike Svob

#38. Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

Eric Roberts

#39. Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.

Neale Donald Walsch

#40. If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.

Zhou Shengxian

#41. Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

#42. I don't know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don't know if the whole thing's an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

Glen Duncan