Quotes About Luck

For the past two weeks, you've been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.

You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck..

Pain is not weakness leaving the body. It's a protective mechanism that, when ignored, will simply turn up the volume until you have to pay attention. Good luck with that.

Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

Peter's a lucky man except in one respect, he doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.

And this was what a couple of that age looked like. If they were lucky.

Peter's a lucky man," he said. "Except in one respect. He doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

the fact that there are times, maybe the most unlikely times, that you realize you're simply thrilled to be alive, and what a great piece of luck it is just to be a part of things, to have a body, so you can feel and see and walk the earth, for just a little while

Omul este întotdeauna înclinat s?-È™i pun? norocul pe seama propriei sale eficienÈ›e È™i s?-l ia drept o binemeritat? recompens? a talentelor, aplicaÈ›iei È™i probit??ii sale. Dar întoarcerile norocului le pune întotdeauna pe seama altora È™i, mai ales, pe seama absurdit??ii instituÈ›iilor sociale È™i politice.

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?

Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. It couldn't save a single child-not the ones who'd gone to Sterling High that day, expecting the normal; not Josie Cormier; certainly not Peter. So what was the recipe? Was it love, mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness?

MY MOTHER USED to say that blue eyes were bad luck, because you could see everything that a blue-eyed person was thinking, but I didn't heed the warning the first time I met Wyatt Armstrong.

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self. And incredulity, that too was a large part of being happy, I mean that euphoric inability fully to believe one's simple luck.

Shit, I forgot. This time of the afternoon the bar's probably shut. Half the staff has gone sick again. Mono, I think. Well, let's go look anyway; we might be lucky. We can't go up to my room--it's full of bugs.' Which kind?' Both.

UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. —The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan)