Quotes About Opportunity

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

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.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

What is luck but something made to run out.

Leave your luck while still winning.

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

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

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Every so often, push your luck.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

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

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

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

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

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.