Quotes About Luck

Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

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

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

it was luck, dumb luck, that had put them each where they were, and the best way to pay for any luck, however temporary, was just to be helpful when you could.

If her luck held, she'd never have to know. The baby was perfect cover, it made her something else, a mom, that was all, just another mom in the nation of moms, ad all she'd ever have to do to be safe was stay inside that particular fate, bring up the kid, grow into some version of Sasha... speak the right lines, stay within budget, wrap each day, one by one, before she lost the light.

Thank you. You've made me feel like Cinderella." Except she hadn't put thousands of lives in danger. "This is no fairy tale." Jane closed the bag and frowned. "It's more like you're Cassandra running to warn the Trojans about the big wooden horse full of soldiers who plan to burn the city." She pressed the bag into my hand. "Let us hope you have better luck than she did.

No one knows how to gamble and win, that's why they call it gambling.

It's not luck, I'm cheating." (Allen Walker)

If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

But in the words of Joichi Ito, director of MIT's media lab, "If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

the book Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, my old friend Tony Tjan and his coauthors studied people they called "Luck Dominant," and found that 86 percent of them credited their success to "being open to new things and people.

Among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia, for example, it is said that to find a beehive with honey in the woods is good luck; to find two beehives is very good luck; to find three is witchcraft.

THE belief in lucky and unlucky days goes back at least to classical times. The Romans had their dies nefasti, and similar concepts were widespread in China and the ancient East. Indeed the idea that certain days are, for some occult reason, propitious for certain actions, and others inappropriate, is to be found among most pre-industrial peoples. It

You never know your luck till the wheel stops.

Wiseman has identified four principles that characterize lucky people. Lucky people tend to maximize chance opportunities.

As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Fate will unwind as it must!

But I don't feel as if a black cloud hangs over my head. I've had a lot of good luck too, you see. I like to think so, anyway." Dougal

We cannot fight fortuna, only try to anticipate her whims and, if we're lucky, bend her to our will.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.