Quotes About Luck

Many promised him their voices: Fralegg the Strong, clever Alvyn Sharp, humpbacked Hotho Harlaw. Hotho offered him a daughter for his queen. "I have no luck with wives," Victarion told him. His first wife died in childbed, giving him a stillborn daughter. His second had been stricken by a pox. And his third … "A king must have an heir," Hotho insisted. "The Crow's Eye brings three sons to show before the kingsmoot." "Bastards

Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.

We all envy other people's luck.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.