Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

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.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

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

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

So, we wait until tomorrow night, and when you say the word, I cross over and haul you both out. Right? That's it?" "With any luck, yes." Luck? We were depending on luck? Nash is so screwed.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

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.

Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.

Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

The concept of luck is very straightforward.  Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

The dice of God are always loaded.

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

The honester the man, the worse luck.