Quotes About Luck

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening.

Harriet said, "You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter." "Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories?" "Because it watn's hers," said Harriet. "It was a library copy." "Stroke of luck for the ratepaers of the City of Westminster," he said, grinning.

Lucky, lucky

Has anybody noticed that we haven't won a game since we ate that chicken á la king?

Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

A fool must now and then be right by chance. —WILLIAM COWPER

Personalizing successes sets people up for disastrous failure. They begin to treat the success as a personal reflection rather than the result of capitalizing on a good opportunity, being at the right place at the right time, or even being just plain lucky.

On the other hand, a discrete event (e.g., a football game, roulette, blackjack, or other casino game) has a defined ending point, which is characteristic of external losses.

I have learned that when you've done your homework, once you recognize that supply and demand are totally out of whack, and you make your move, you are definitely going to get very lucky.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Wes held my hand in front of Dad, who played it real easy, like I had boys around all the time. JoAnn said I was lucky, and she should know. Her father specialized in fear, being a life insurance salesman, and could bring a boy to his knees.

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

Being lucky, doesn't always make you happy, though, does it? Especially if people keep telling you how lucky you are, telling you to count your blessings.

An astrologer told Coco Chanel that five was her lucky number. So she named her first perfume Chanel No. 5 and launched it on the fifth day of May (the fifth month). The rest, as they say, is history.

The quartz rocks stared at her as if they, too, wanted to go wherever she was headed. Once she was dressed she pulled the smallest one off the shelf and let it hitch a ride in her in her pocket, for luck.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.