Quotes About Luck

This is what I excelled at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind.

We are so lucky to live here," he would say, and she couldn't disagree. They were lucky that the earth had conspired to heap up such startling beauty in one place, and they were lucky that it hadn't all fallen apart yet in a a geological catastrophe.

I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself.

You needed a good roll of the dice, a lucky draw of the cards, and some smarts, but if things went your way and you gave it your all, anyone could win.

On the topic of winning, and the lottery: You can't lose if you don't play, therefore not losing , is winning!

Fate is a bitch, but there you go.

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

Confidence is usually a bluff – if you're lucky you might have it, but frankly nobody will know the difference.

We're lucky." He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. "Most couples have only one first kiss. We'll have two.

What luck have I? I don't suppose you'll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself—you haven't any chance to make money with a father like that.

Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.

It's not against Lottery regulations to lose, obviously - somebody's got to - but it's against the Rules to be seen to lose. It's against the Rules to be seen to win. It's not just that you break the Rules by sitting there. It's that you put everyone else in the position of ostentatious Rulebreakers, manoeuvred into flashing their luck just by walking to work.

However, to the amazement of their neighbors, the Klutzes never got seriously hurt. As clumsy as they were, the Klutzes were twice that lucky!

Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

There is no such thing as no chance.