No Luck Quotes

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Luck is the residue of design.

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

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.

Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

You have to be ready for luck.

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

Everything in life is luck.

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.