Quotes About Luck

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

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.

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success

Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

It [success] is really by mistake.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.

You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.