Quotes About Luck

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Life is a rotten lottery.

Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?

How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.