Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.’ (Cassandra)

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Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

Fortune favours the bold.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

Going viral isn’t random, magic, or luck. It’s a science.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Good luck with your asparagus.

Good fortune has side effects.

Good music always defeats bad luck

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.