No Luck Quotes

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work

How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included."He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks.

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

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.

I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.

'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.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

The worst cynicism a belief in luck.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.

I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.

Go and wake up your luck.

When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.

You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

Luck is what you have left over after you give ioo percent.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.

The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

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

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

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

Behind bad luck comes good luck.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.