Quotes About Luck

If you choose to ignore these factors, good luck to you. A blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they are found in oak forests.

Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.

Bit lucky there" says Don. "Thought God might be smiling on you." "I don't believe in luck," you tell Don. "And I don't believe in God." "So what do you believe in then?" asks Don Revie. "Me," you tell him "Brian Howard Clough.

If SARS had conformed to the perverse pattern of presymptomatic infectivity, its 2003 emergence wouldn't be a case history in good luck and effective outbreak response. It would be a much darker story.

Southern Chinese have always noshed more widely through the animal kingdom than virtually any other peoples on earth. During the Era of Wild Flavor, the range, scope, and amount of wild animal cuisine consumed would increase to include virtually every species on land, sea, or air. Wild Flavor (yewei in Mandarin) was considered a way of gaining "face," prosperity, and good luck. Eating wild, Greenfeld explained, was only one aspect of these new ostentations in upscale consumption

It could mean that some unknowable Spirit ruled the world & directed his actions, or perhaps that he had simply been lucky. Perhaps it meant that the avoidance motive - fear - should be ignored in all-important matters. The Room of Vital Wisdom may be empty, he thought, but shut should not prevent us from going inside.

Few people win consistently, so the tax situation shouldn't matter. But one overriding thing about gamblers is that they always think they are going to win, despite years of evidence to the contrary.

The kanji characters he chose to make up the name of his new company—nin-ten-do—could be understood as "Leave luck to heaven," or "Deep in the mind we have to do whatever we have to do.

It's good to be good, but it's better to be lucky.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Anyone can get lucky," he said coldly. "And I suspect your continued survival owes itself to a combination of good fortune and sheer bloody-mindedness. You are too stubborn to die.

If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Murphy's Law states that, "If anything will go wrong, it will".Positive side of this law is, "If anything good can happen, it definitely will happen

Tidak akan ada namanya kesuksesan, tanpa adanya suatu usaha. Keberuntungan adalah ketika kesempatan dan usaha saling bertemu

You are not with your luck but he is with you forever and your life proves it.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

Here's something to think about How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'

How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Fate didn't always speak up when called.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.