Quotes About Luck

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

My first job was a commercial for a Swiss insurance company. It was an eight-minute short with a proper story arc, and it ended up getting a spot at Cannes Lions; I was lucky to avoid the commercials where you're their puppet.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

Being a sex symbol had its advantages. You got to meet a lot of interesting people, and men especially. It was a man's world in those days, and I had a lot of luck with men.

I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.

Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn't die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you're here for a reason, maybe we all are.

You got to be lucky. Like, for example, one time in the seventh game of a playoff, somebody took a shot -- I think it was Nelson or Ramsey or Sam -- and it hit the backboard, hit the rim, rolled around, went in, and made me a hell of a coach. You know what I mean?

Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.

Cicero believed "luck" determined the success of gambling with essentially random devices. He also apparently understood that there was a relationship between the luck (odds) on a particular throw or set of throws and long-term frequencies. But Cicero was later executed, illustrating that rationality does not guarantee success; it only increases its likelihood. In fact, as pointed out earlier, opting for rationality when others do not can lead to social ostracism.

Impose your luck, embrace your happiness and go toward your risks: by looking at you, they'll get used to it.

I got the address from her, and by good luck it wasn't Bucyrus, Ohio, but merely Brooklyn. Whatever else you want to say about Brooklyn, and so do I, it does have one big advantage, it's close.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

Lucky Devon Pixies, said the sign. I'm a lucky Devon pixie, from the legend old and true, Kiss me once and turn me twice and I'll bring luck to you. The pixies were silver charms in pretty little boxes with the verse on the lid,

Intuition, luck, mistakes, serendipity—there you have four vital business concepts that every manager should know.

It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card.

One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration.

Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

Roman philosopher Seneca who some two thousand years ago said, 'Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

En conclusión, este es mi consejo: trabaje duro para mejorar su suerte, no se ponga debajo de un árbol durante una tormenta y jamás sienta miedo de hablar con desconocidos. Nunca se sabe: ¡a lo mejor puede encontrarse con su propio Sergey!

For all the luck in the world, there is no luck in the grave.

Who of late for cleanliness,Finds sixpence in her shoe?