Quotes About Luck

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

Anytime you bring additional strategy to the game, fans like it.

I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian by any stretch of the imagination.

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

I have been lucky to strike a balance between the off-beat and commercial films.

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.

I never would have thought that in a million years that this would have happened, being in WWE and being in a Muppet film. But for some stroke of luck I guess they both did and I'm loving both of them.

I am incredibly lucky to be alive because one in three people who have strokes don't make it.

I'm lucky enough to be mentally strong, which I think is fundamental for a goalkeeper.