Quotes About Luck

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body.

There's a lot of bunch finishes, which are hectic and kind of dangerous; you need a lot of luck to win those.

I was lucky. I held on to some of my money. I didn't really know what I wanted to do after boxing. But I found what I wanted to do.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

I've had no helping hand in Hollywood. But in general, I've found that when it comes to getting jobs, what's meant for you can't pass you by.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

I'm very lucky being able to be next to the likes of Thierry Henry or Didier Drogba.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

Hey, I'm not rich, but I'm lucky. I get to do what I want to do. That's not an easy thing to do in this country.

I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.

In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend—only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

Good luck "You will be the better for it," he returned. "I believe I've allus been the better for any trouble as ever I had to go through with. I couldn't quite say the same for every bit of good luck I had; leastways, I consider trouble the best luck a man can have." Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood, ch. 33

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

Though waiters always die poor, they have long runs of luck occasionally.

Good luck, we do find, often follows opportunity but seldom comes otherwise.

Now, suppose we consider our trades and businesses. Is it not natural if we conclude a profitable transaction to consider it not good luck but a just reward for our efforts? I am inclined to think we may be overlooking the gifts of the goddess. Perhaps she really does assist us when we do not appreciate her generosity.

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract the interest of the good goddess. She is ever anxious to aid those who please her. Men of action please her best . Action will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire. MEN OF ACTION ARE FAVORED BY THE GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK                                                

We all hope to be favored by the whimsical Goddess of Good Luck.

The desire to be lucky is universal.

To continue to be lucky is my great desire.

Both the tales did illustrate how good luck follows opportunity. Herein lies a truth that many similar tales of good luck, won or lost, could not change. The truth is this: Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.

I am unable to name a single one who started his success from such a source (gambling at the casino).

Would you call a fisherman lucky who for years so studied the habits of the fish that with each changing wind he could cast his nets about them? Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.