Quotes About Luck

Luck in combat is fickle," Barber once said. "But I've noticed through the years that those who make the best preparations enjoy the best luck.

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

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The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

Whenever something serious happens, you're supposed to count yourself lucky and be happy.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

There is nothing to do but put up with it. I have a cat's luck." Her indomitable will had begun to triumph over despair and apathy.

Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.

Doubtful she would be so lucky with Dark Arun. Perhaps she would try assassinating him on their wedding night and find out.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

But actuality in the end proves unmanageable. It breaks in upon men's conceptions, changes them, and finally destroys them. Even where men's conceptions are sound and reasonable, where by their own creative power and their discernment of actuality they correspond to things, actuality in its capacity as Luck, will behave in an unreasonable way, as Pericles says, and overturn conceptions of the greatest nobility and intelligence.

Even where men's conceptions are sound and reasonable, where by their own creative power and their discernment of actuality they correspond to things, actuality in its capacity as Luck, will behave in an unreasonable way, as Pericles says, and overturn conceptions of the greatest nobility and intelligence.

Never confuse good luck with good planning

Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.

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

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much ...

Only about thirty poker players I can think of make serious money year in and year out playing poker. The rest make a killing one year, lose the next, or lose all the time and lie about it.

Karma," Duncan said, "will always piss on your new shoes.

You don't know how lucky you are to have Hollywood knocking on your door. If someone wanted to make a movie about me, I'd quit this job in a nanosecond, move to Hawaii, and spend my days on the beach.

I've reinvented myself many times over, picked up my broken wings and flapped till I could hop around again. I'm flying again now, in my bedroom, writing, looking out my window. I had no idea, until I began putting pen to paper, that so many memories were inside me waiting to be rediscovered. I'm very lucky. I may even come to know myself.