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Quotes About Chance

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
~ Mark Twain
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
~ Voltaire
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
~ Lucille Ball
Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.
~ Amy Neftzger, The Ferryman
Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.
~ Sally Koslow
When Fortune knocks, open the door, ' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
~ Margi Preus, West of the Moon
luck is distributed at six in the morning
~ Luis Zamarro Fraile
The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
I am not sure if some people are luckier than others, but one thing's sure: right place, right time, you can define it however you want, some people get more opportunities than others.
~ Daya Kudari
People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky .
~ Muhammad Saqib
Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.
~ Willis Turner
He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.
~ Michael Lee West, American Pie
Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity
~ Randy Pausch
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
~ Frank A. Clark
I don't think carrying an umbrella during monsoons is luck.
~ Daya Kudari
Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.
~ Daya Kudari
Luck is my middle name, " said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.
~ Terry Pratchett
Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.
~ Nabil Basma
Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation
~ Nabil Basma
Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
~ Arab proverb