Quotes About Chance

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

Luck is created by the prepared.

Everything in my life was luck.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.