No Luck Quotes

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

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

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

The luck will alter and the star will rise.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.

In short, luck's always to blame.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.