Quotes About Luck

A decorator can make lots of money - assuming she wins the lottery.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Luck has its rules, if you can understand them, and then it is scarcely luck.

It won't necessarily last, they know, but they cherish it all the more for that. You only know luck by its opposite.

My diaries are full of such missed opportunities, but the stock market is merciful—it always gives the nincompoop a second chance.

He had very few dealings with the government. That was neither a virtue nor a vice; it was simply good luck.

Both of them sat silent on the moss-covered rock in the slant of sunlight through the old pines and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.

Asriel among the bears: Iofur Raknison, I'm going to be entirely frank with you, followed by a string of confident and overbearing lies—had he noticed the bear-king's doll-dæmon, the clue that he was unbearlike enough to be tricked? Or was it just luck?—but he knew the bears well enough. He was very like his daughter.

Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.

Sometimes you're lucky and sometimes you're not. Any biography is chance, and, beginning at conception, chance—the tyranny of contingency—is everything. Chance is what I believed Mr. Cantor meant when he was decrying what he called God.

All this, this luck – what did it mean? Coming so suddenly, and on such a scale, it was as baffling as a misfortune.