Quotes About Luck

We'll be okay. Luck's starting to move in our direction.

good things happened when you took steps, when you worked for them—and when you were lucky enough to find people who'd give you a chance to do your best.

chance" is not a cause. Chance is a word that we use to describe mathematical possibilities. It has no power of its own. Chance is nothing. It's what rocks dream about.

The lucky ones are just born dead.

To anyone reading this who isn't already dead, I wish you luck, honestly I do. You just keep swallowing your vitamins. Keep jogging around reservoirs and avoiding second hand cigarette smoke. Cross your fingers! Maybe death won't happen to you.

There are whole industries, such as venture capital, that are currently organized around the belief that innovation is essentially a game of playing the odds. But it's time to topple that tired paradigm. I've spent twenty years gathering evidence so that you can put your time, energy, and resources into creating products and services that you can predict, in advance, customers will be eager to hire. Leave relying on luck to the other guys.

Companies stumble for many reasons, of course, among them bureaucracy, arrogance, tired executive blood, poor planning, short-term investment horizons, inadequate skills and resources, and just plain bad luck.

Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon.

And there... he realised that he had a subject , a labour of love that would give him purpose, that would make sense in the senseless academic world. He would not have to let his studies go to hell. He would be the luckiest of men: someone whose private obsessions and public life intersected.

To my new friends. May misfortune follow you the rest of your lives, but never catch up.

You didn't need to be lucky to be successful. You just needed to work hard.

through the door and immediately realized their luck was about to run out. Linda mumbled a curse in their ears

The truth is, bad things are going to happen somewhere, every single day, and today was just your turn.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and problems, which tint our consciousness a shade of grey. Talking and thinking about peak experiences makes us realize how lucky we are, and that we can dispense with the caution and constraint. It is like realizing that you have more money in the bank than you thought.

sometimes good fortune is just having fewer messed-up things happening to you.

Fortune favors those who dare.

How fortunate were you, thrice fortunate and more, whose luck it was to die under the high walls of Troy before your parents' eyes!

O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!

Mindannyiunknak meg van pecsételve a sorsa, de egyesekké jobban, mint másoké.

Que rara es la vida! La suerte nos abandona cuando más propicia deseamos que nos sea.

luck, of course, will always play a role, as it does with all strategies

Bad Luck Card Cause you don't love me Is awful, awful hard. Gypsy done showed me Ma bad luck card. There ain't no good left In this world for me. Gypsy done tole me, -- Unlucky as can be. I don't know what Po' weary me can do. Gypsy says I'd kill ma self If I was you.

Good luck, man." Wraith clapped him on the shoulder. "For an angel, you don't suck." "Ditto. For a demon....well, you do suck." "Because I'm half vampire?" "Sure," Reaver said. "Let's go with that.