Quotes About Luck

Cuando uno comete un gran error», reflexionaría filosóficamente, «es muy fácil que acabe revelándose de mayor utilidad que la más acertada de las decisiones. La vida es un todo indivisible, y la suerte también, y ninguno de sus componentes puede separarse del resto».

But I didn't trust luck. Luck wasn't reliable.

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life.

So in the end careful interviewing doesn't guarantee you anything, it merely increases your odds of getting lucky.

Entre los príncipes, especialmente entre los más jóvenes, aquéllos que no tenían nada que hacer, se impuso la estúpida moda de liberar bellezas prisioneras. La mayor parte, por suerte, se rompió la nuca.

You had some bad luck," he said. "Of all the temples in Gelibol and the Nimnar Valley, you picked the Church of Coram Agh Tera, the Lionheaded Spider. In order to lift the curse thrown by the priestess of Coram Agh Tera

El cobarde muere cien veces. El hombre valiente muere sólo una vez. Pero la Señora Fortuna al atrevido ayuda, al cobarde siempre desprecio tiene.

If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with.

Septimus look at Jenna, his green eyes serious, "It's a luxury Jen," he said. "What do you mean?" Septimus stared at the scraped and bloody snow at his feet. It took him some moments to reply. "I mean…" he began slowly. "I mean that if you go through life and never face a situation where, in order for your to survive, someone else has to die, then you're lucky. That's what I mean.

May your luck soon be brighter! With such fine work, I know it will.

I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky. It is an attempt to reach others and to make them love you.

Fate keeps on happening.

Fate keeps happening.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

Whenever you make the Super Bowl, so many things - you have to have the good general manager and the coach and the great players, and you have to have not too many injuries - everything, game plans and everything, has to fall very much your way for that to happen.

I am lucky to get the ­opportunity to play for France and that alone is a huge motivation for me, whenever I go on the pitch.

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.