What Is Luck Quotes

People make their own luck.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Good luck has its storms.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

If you think you can - you can!

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Be prepared for luck.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

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

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.