What Is Luck Quotes

As good luck would have it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

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.

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.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck never made a man wise.

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

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

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

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

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

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.

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

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

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

Few people realize that luck is created.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Be prepared for 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.

If you think you can - you can!

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

The champion makes his own luck.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!