Quotes About Success

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Leave your luck while still winning.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

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.

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.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

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

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

Luck is created by the prepared.