Quotes About Luck

That powerWhich erring men call Chance.

"...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

The Waldorf's wide corridors and heavily decorated public rooms were démodé. Worse, they used up valuable space without a return. The Waldorf-Astoria found itself an anachronism—it was out of time, out of place, and plumb out of luck.

Well Good Luck Pilgrim

Let all that do ill, take this precedent: Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. And of all axioms this shall win the prize, 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Fortune's a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take away all at one swoop.

we make our good luck or bad luck with our choices, actions and how we deal with the results.

She thought then about Henry, the kindness in his eyes as a young man, and the kindness still there when he was blind from his stroke, the pleasant expression on his face as he sat in that wheelchair, staring. She thought about Jack, his sly smile, and she thought about Christopher. She had been lucky, she supposed. She had been loved by two men, and that had been a lucky thing; without luck, why would they have loved her? But they had. And her son seemed to have come around.

Rather than praising their personalities or intelligence ("You are so smart" or "artistic" or "athletic"), criticizing them ("You are so stupid" or "uncoordinated"), or attributing their accomplishments to luck, we can praise their efforts or strategies.

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

Esto, después de todo, no ha hecho más que terminar. Dentro de poco, si hay suerte, estaremos todos perdidos.

de la misma forma que unas veces uno es arrojado al territorio de la desgracia; otras, gracias a la valentía, la desesperación y la suerte, encuentra uno la tierra prometida

I wish you luck with a capital "F".

Since we remember clearly only our ordeals, it is ultimately the sick, the persecuted, the victims in every realm who will have lived to the best advantage. The others - the lucky ones - have a life, of course, but not the memory of life.

what luck, what a windfall! I am still alive, I am still one of those flesh-and-blood ghosts. . . .

Toate aceste popoare fericite, ghiftuite: francezi, englezi...O, eu nu sunt de aici, am în spate veacuri de nefericire. M-am n?scut într-un popor f?r? noroc. Fericirea se sfârÈ™eÈ™te la Viena; mai departe, Blestemul!

Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

A single run of luck has made the fortune of many a charm and many idols.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realized. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

To be able to keep a mother-in-law in the country while he lives in Paris, and vice versa, is a piece of good fortune which a husband too rarely meets with.