Quotes About Fortune

Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.

This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.

I don't think carrying an umbrella during monsoons is luck.

Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that's luck I guess.

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

Luck is my middle name, " said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.

A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.

Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Behind bad luck comes good luck.

You've been inexpressibly lucky, " he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius but it really was a lucky break.

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.

Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.