Quotes About Luck

At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident. We can start to break free from this torture by recognizing that the evenings that don't work out are really just a minor species of bad luck. The

No cat is bad luck

Is this happy coincidence just good luck, or an act of providence, or what? No, it is simply that we could not live on planets without such properties. Many other planets exist that are not so hospitable to life, such as Uranus, where the temperature is –371 degrees Fahrenheit, or Venus, where the rain is sulfuric acid.

It is hard to think about your past without tidying it up into a kind of story: one in which you are cast as the hero or victim. Invariably we ignore the regular dice-rolls of chance or random luck; successful high-flyers are typically prone to ignoring the interplay of blind fortune when they credit their career trajectories to their canny business sense or brute self-belief. We tell the story we want to tell, and we live out those stories every day.

If you approach any psychic with any sort of scepticism youll see through pretty much all of it unless they happen to get lucky.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

I was always lucky, and I knew it.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Your lucky your brains didn't escape right out of there before you got it patched up. Brains like to go their own way sometimes.

Serendipity (n.) finding something good without looking for it

Devia ser uma tarde de felicidade, mesmo para os homens de uma sorte mediana.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.

When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Take a chance! All life is a chance

My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying "Random accidents ahead", "Life's a lottery, Be lucky."

When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.