Quotes About Luck

Na estrada, liguei o rádio e, por sorte, tocava Mozart. A vida pode ser boa em certos momentos, mas, ás vezes, isso depende de nós.

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the seats except for the luck of the draw--parents with enough money to point you safely toward a more generous life.

E. B. White wrote, "No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky."1

A statistical anomaly does not prove wrongdoing. Delma Kinney, a fifty-year-old Atlanta man, won $1 million in an instant lottery in 2008 and then another $1 million in an instant game in 2011. The probability of that happening to the same person is somewhere in the range of 1 in 25 trillion.

If it comes easy...Take it twice

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Kyle still had a shot. A long shot, but, hey, sometimes the

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

I'm so lucky to not have to busk anymore, but I realized as soon as I didn't need to do it that I really missed it.

I was lucky. I missed the struggle. I don't feel I have to pay anyone back for the miserable years. I never had them.

I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

I had a gorgeous mom. She was beautiful, so I lucked out there.

I feel like I've gotten so lucky and gotten to do such cool things with such cool folks. It's really great. You definitely want that momentum to keep going, for sure.

I'm lucky; I've been raised with the right morals.

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.

I'm lucky, I'm very, very lucky. I work with some of the most amazing artists.

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.

I never went to acting school; when someone expounds on motivation and all that stuff, I don't understand it. I was just lucky to be able to do what I did. When I started, people said I was very natural, which I guess is difficult for a lot of people to be.

Not courage alone, therefore, but an actual sense of your superiority should animate you as you go forward against the enemy. Confidence, out of a mixture of ignorance and good luck, can be felt even by cowards; but this sense of superiority comes only to those who, like us, have real reasons for knowing that they are better placed than their opponents. And when the chances on both sides are equal, it is intelligence that confirms courage.