Quotes About Luck

Too damn long.' He put his coat on an empty chair, settled a slim attaché case on top of it, and placed a narrow-brimmed gray hat on top of the attaché case. He seated himself across the table from me and dug his lucky charm out of his pocket. I watched him set it spinning. 'Too goddamned long, Matt,' he told the coin.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.

I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.

If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Quando (como notavelmente formulado por Erich Fromm) "cada indivíduo deve ir em frente e tentar sua sorte", quando "ele tem que nadar ou afundar" — "a busca compulsiva da certeza" se instala, começa a desesperada busca por "soluções" capazes de "eliminar a consciência da dúvida" — o que quer que prometa "assumir a responsabilidade pela 'certeza'" é bem-vindo.5

Good luck. Luck? said Eddie, as Deveraux vanished from the screen. Who's gonna need luck? When the bad guys see Eddie Nelligan bearing down on them, they'll run a mile. Sure, Eddie, remarked Jennifer. Why should they be different from everyone else?

Happy, for instance, once meant luck. Not good luck or bad, just luck. Look what we have done to ourselves. We think we can actually pursue happiness.

and you have to take gladly what life offers, she has learned that much, and sometimes you get lucky. There's nothing wrong with that, is there? There's nothing wrong with that.

I think there's a part of the brain, probably somewhere in the back, that won't give up believing in magic. It was the part that made cavemen believe that drawing elks on stone would make for a good hunt the next day. And it's still chugging along, making you think you have lucky socks, or that your kids' birthdays will win the lottery.

No one confiscated the penknife. Which was lucky for Heather. Because two days later it would save her life.

Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a lucky number.

God has a bucketful of freckles, and when he's done making babies in heaven, he lines them up right before they're born and sprinkles freckles on them for good luck.

Until that moment, I'd been living in my own little universe of good-luck hell.

We charm by coincidence rather than design.