Daily Inspiration Quote by Audrey Hepburn

Luck is doing a lot of work here, and Audrey Hepburn knows it. “I’ve been lucky” sounds modest, almost disarming, but it’s also a quiet admission that careers like hers aren’t just the product of grit and good taste. They’re contingent: the right director, the right role, the right face at the right historical moment. Hepburn came of age in a Europe shattered by war and deprivation; her later glow on screen isn’t just glamour, it’s survival translated into poise. Calling it luck is a way to honor what can’t be controlled without turning herself into a myth.

Then she pivots: “Opportunities don’t often come along.” That sentence punctures the motivational-poster fantasy that the world is endlessly stocked with chances. It’s a scarcity mindset, but not a cynical one. In entertainment, especially for women of her era, the window can be narrow, the gatekeepers plentiful, the expiration date implied. Hepburn’s restraint makes the warning sharper: if you pretend opportunities are abundant, you can afford to be passive. If you know they’re rare, you move.

“So, when they do, you have to grab them” lands like a practical ethic disguised as encouragement. Grab isn’t “wait for,” “deserve,” or “manifest.” It’s active, even slightly unladylike language from an icon of elegance, which is precisely why it works. The subtext is permission: take up space, act decisively, don’t apologize for wanting the door to open and stepping through it fast.