Serendipity Quotes
104 Serendipity quotes by 90 unique authors
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The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.
— Tom Kelley
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When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.
— Steven Pressfield
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It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for…
— Steven Johnson
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One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
— Lawrence Block
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All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
— Alan Alda
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I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.
— Twiggy
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process,…
— Eleanor Clift
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Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.
— Steve Leveen
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When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
— Clive Thompson
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There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
— David Coleman
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
— Gary Hamel
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Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects…
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of…
— John Locke
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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
— Rene Magritte
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In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our…
— Peter McWilliams
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be…
— Lily Tomlin
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Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was…
— Rufus Wainwright
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Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were…
— Lawrence Block
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The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
— Robert Henri
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We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the…
— Julio Cortazar
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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
— Elizabeth Berg
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You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
— Mary Oliver
Who Wrote These Serendipity Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 104 Serendipity Quotes, led by these top contributors: