Quotes About Luck

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

Hard work can get you far, but never underestimate how much luck plays in life. Can you make your own luck? No; that's why they call it luck, but you can be open when it comes along. Try not to be angry at people who squander their luck. Bastards.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

It's no different in the spiritual realm. Our failures don't have to define us. It all depends on how we respond. If we curse our luck, blame others, and fail to take responsibility, we'll continue to fail. But if we face the facts, accept responsibility, and humbly get back on the right path, our failures can lay the groundwork for future success.

Todos esos monstruos. Todas esas formas horribles de matar gente. Tantas criaturas espeluznantes que andan sueltas por ahí... -Se estremeció-. Todos nacemos y crecemos rodeados de monstruos. forman parte de nuestro mundo, así que al final nos hacemos a la idea de que están ahí, y de que podremos evitarlos con un poco de suerte. Pero en tu libro salen muchos mas. Es como volver a descubrir que vives en un mundo brutal cuando ya creías que lo habías asumido.

Devils out! Fortune in!" they chanted. Bedding aired

People didn't get what they deserved, you couldn't hold off bad luck by being good, you couldn't say you earned your good luck. You just got what you got, and did the best you could, and tried not to be afraid of what might happen next.

Was it mad to at least try to live as one wished, or as clost to it as possible? This life is mine, seh would think sometimes. This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it. -Cora

What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.

I'd gotten lucky too, if that was the word for it. if I hadn't been watching Frankie at the orphanage, if I hadn't followed her for so long, maybe I would never have met Marguerite, maybe I never would have remembered myself, come back to myself, rewritten my own story. The door to heaven didn't open up for me, but not everyone was that kind of angel" -Pearl

There is a lot of randomness in the universe, but truly lucky people recognize that fairy godmothers are lazy. If taking your career to the next level will require your fairy godmother to tip her wand, make sure the wand is pointed at you, and that you're standing as close to her as possible, so all she has to do is nudge the thing like a bored barfly fiddling with a cocktail glass.

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.

He was beginning to think Mr Piper the philosophy teacher was right: man was not born good, he was just out for himself, and when he got the chance he would laugh at those less fortunate, those unlucky ones who kept on flunking French.

Dude you say the best stuff. You're so getting lucky.

Magellan capitalized on a piece of luck. The longboat belonging to Concepción's captain, Gaspar de Quesada

and on whose skill, luck, and good judgment their lives depended.

was too much luck. He feared the day the universe would notice he wasn't supposed to have her and take her away. Or that she might suddenly realize her mistake and disappear from his life as suddenly as she had entered. After a while, the fear became a habit, too.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Charise Mericle Harper

He had had, he felt, a lucky life of good fortune and privilege, and if the sun was setting on people like him, middle-class white guys, well, okay.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.