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I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

I wish you luck with a capital F.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Good luck and good timing are the same thing.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.