Quotes About Luck

You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

As his own end approached, Elliott reflected on a life that had been "undistinguished, albeit mildly notorious," and tremendous fun. He had known indignity, misfortune, and intimate betrayal, but his fund of natural optimism never ran out. "I feel I have been extraordinarily lucky," he wrote. "I look back on my career with some wonderment

Well you stick the dynamite in the keyhole and you don't damage the safe, only sometimes you put a little too much in and blow the safe door up, but other times you're lucky and the safe just comes open. Thus the scion of a great banking dynasty learned how to rob a bank.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-described socialist who caucused with the Democrats, seemed to see the world as a vast conspiracy of big corporations and the wealthy. (Corporations and the wealthy have lots of power, certainly, but in the real world most bad things happen because of ignorance, incompetence, or bad luck, not as the result of grand conspiracies.)

Fourth, lucky people have a special ability to turn bad luck into good fortune. Of all four defining factors involved in luck, Wiseman believes this one plays the most important role in survival.

cada cual se labra su propia suerte, o bien otros, por lo general idiotas, la labran por él.

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

I regard myself as being enormously lucky to have been accepted by the British public in so many areas.

I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like 'Heathers.'

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

I started kinda late with wrestling in high school, and I wasn't doing so well - I lost my first five matches in a row, and my little brother said 'wear this chain for good luck... ' and told me it might intimidate some of my opponents. Sure enough, when I wore the chain I went all the way to the regional finals.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Every job I've had I feel lucky to have had. Of all the family, I was the lucky one. I've been very fortunate. I don't regret anything, I don't crave anything.

I really feel like a regular dude who happens to be incredibly lucky.

I'm really lucky to be in the TV industry and to have a regular yearly contract. That gives me security.

I was lucky enough to go to rehab.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.