Quotes About Chance

If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.'

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.