Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.

Perseverance brings good luck.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.

[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)

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

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.

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

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

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

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

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