Daily Inspiration Quote by Marla Maples

Marla Maples is doing a very 90s kind of self-mythmaking here: rejecting “luck” not as superstition, but as an insult. Luck implies randomness, being carried by forces you didn’t earn. For a public figure whose fame was inseparable from tabloid narrative and proximity to power, that word can feel like a diminishment. So she swaps in “fate” and “vision,” two ideas that conveniently preserve mystery while still crediting the self.

The rhetorical move is slippery on purpose. Fate suggests a cosmic plotline - an inevitability that absolves you from looking too closely at contingency, privilege, or publicity machinery. Vision, meanwhile, imports the language of ambition culture: you don’t merely want things, you “see” them, you manifest them, you storyboard your own destiny. Put together, the line tries to reconcile two competing American desires: to believe life is meaningful (fate) and to believe success is deserved (vision). Luck would concede that outcomes are uneven and sometimes unfair. Fate and vision let you keep the comfort of order and the prestige of agency.

There’s also a soft defensive note. When someone says they’re not “a big believer” in luck, it’s often because they’ve heard their story reduced to it. Maples pushes back by reframing her trajectory as intentional, almost curated, as if the public’s chaotic version of events was missing the inner plan. That’s the subtext: don’t call it chance; call it authorship.