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Quotes About Luck

Everywhere I went, it was Balto this and Balto that. Truth to tell, I knew Balto well enough. He was in my kennel. He was owned, bred, raised, and trained by Sepp, same as I was. Sepp called Balto nothing but a scrub freight dog. Don't get me wrong, he was a nice-enough fellow. But he was no racer. And he didn't have a whole lot going on upstairs. What he had was luck. It was luck, pure and simple, that he happened to be leading the team that made the last leg of the Serum Run.
~ Kate Klimo
Moonmaidens, whispered Magyar. Moonmaidens, those strange changeling fairies who lived in white birch trees and were never seen in the daylight; Moonmaidens who, if caught by the gray-hour of dawn, could never go back to fairyland again; Moonmaidens, who brought good luck to men.
~ Kate Seredy
A good life is always partly a matter of luck, but it is also a choice we make for ourselves- a choice of deliberation, attention, creativity, limits. A choice predicated on this belief: I am worthy.
~ Katrina Kenison
Semua tahu, Sayang...agar nasib baik tetap langgeng, kerendahan hati harus selalu dipelihara. Tidak peduli keajaiban apa yang dihadiahkan hidup padamu, jangan pernah membual tentang itu.
~ Kavita Daswani
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers, and I was more lucky than I knew in having been brought up around enthusiasts, and lovers of enthusiasts.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
If disappointments do come, you will carry on still. You will say, just as he does, I am so lucky.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It was bad luck for poor old Tommy.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
~ Kelley Armstrong
All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it.
~ Kelley Armstrong
She's my friend. Good for you. Just my luck, I said. Finally meet my twin brother and, turns out, he's an ass.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Yeah yeah, h said. I waited. She was decent. Although technically, she's still naked. You're sch a perv, she turned on to me. Okay, kitty. Lead on. We'll try to keep up. Yeah,good luck with that, Rafe said. If she runs, we're history.
~ Kelley Armstrong
when Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman decided to leave the family cattle business in Bavaria, they chose by instinct or luck to settle in Montgomery, Alabama, a hub of the cotton trade. The
~ Ken Auletta
Personal ambition and greed are essential to the success of a banking firm, but other qualities contribute to success, including teamwork, leadership, strong management, luck, a common tradition or culture.
~ Ken Auletta
The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.
~ Ken Kesey
Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.
~ Ken Kesey
BAD LUCK on the road can last only so long; then you die, or your luck improves.
~ Kenn Kaufman
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.
~ Michel de Montaigne
No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.
~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
~ Ambrose Bierce
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
~ George Balanchine
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~ Ovid
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
~ Ovid
Good luck with the world.
~ William Peter Blatty