Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.

If you do not use clean language in your NAPS the negative words can be literally taken as part of the NAPS, and then you wonder why your NAPS has gone adrift, or that it only partly worked for you.

If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

If you wait on luck, you will wait for an eternity.

If you walk in with the cocky attitude, big chances that you will walk out quickly with out golden ticket. It's ok to have confidence, not so ok to be full of yourself.

I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away.

I have a rabbit’s foot, a four-leaf clover, and a lucky charm. The only problem is, none of them become effective until I do.

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with willpower, or wisdom, or pluck. It's just a matter of where you're standing. Two inches to the right, and the bus hits you. If your office is on the ninety-second floor instead of the ninetieth, you don't make it out in time.

I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.

I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

I’m so far from lucky, I’m kissing its ass from the other side.

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

Imagine your conscious mind being a locked door to your subconscious mind, all of that lingering doubt blocking the way for the powerful messages you want to embed into your subconscious mind. Well now with NAPS you get to crash through those once locked doors!

I mean if we all looked at how much Bill Gates has in his bank and allowed that to act as a distraction then it could be very off-putting for some.

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappers except for the luck of the draw - parents with enough money to point you toward a more generous death. of course, some come through brilliantly, but there are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, kept from even the most minute chance to realize their potential.

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

In developing NAPS even further than just learning while you sleep, I have expanded on how others have brought this to the fore of subconscious power … I have gone beyond that.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

In fact you need do nothing to be connected with the Law of Attraction! Whether you like it or not, since the very beginning of time, it is an unyielding, never bending, unbreakable universal rule. You cannot escape it!

In relationships luck has no meaning, are you lucky if you can leave her, or unlucky?

In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

In the game of cards, he would always get the worst hand. In the game of dice, he always got the worst numbers. By the age 7 he had already accepted that luck was not his thing. But for the first time, he wanted to get that perfect hand. For the first time he wanted to be the one, to be the one whom she would like over all others.

I recall the way an old history professor of mine defined poverty: He said the poor are the ones who can never afford to have any bad luck. They can’t get an infection because they don’t have access to any medicine. They can’t get sick or miss their bus or get injured because they will lose their menial labor job if they don’t show up for work. They can’t misplace their pocket change because it’s actually the only money they have left for food. They can’t have their goats get sick because it’s the only source of milk they have. On and on it goes. Of course, the bad news is, everybody has bad luck. It’s just that most of us have margins of resources and access to support that allow us to weather the storm, because we’re not trying to live off $2.00 a day.

In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me. And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.

It is impossible to make your own luck when you don't have the ingredients.

I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.

I stare at him, trying to comprehend what he’s done. He saved Magiano from falling overboard. He saved me. He is taking this mission seriously, however much he loathes us. “Maybe next time,” he says to me with that smile, “you won’t be so lucky.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!

It is impossible to make your own luck if you don’t have the right ingredients.

It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

It is what we employ from the subconscious mind that is the most productive for manifesting!

It is this moment that we should feel and focus on. Having must begin right now. It’s not the future, but the present.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

It's good to be mad for someone, but that's great if you are made for same one.

It's luck. All is luck when skill's played out. It was luck left me with a face that didn't fit in Contact, it's luck that's made you a great game-player, it's luck that's put you here tonight. Neither of us were fully planned, Jernau Gurgeh; your genes determined you and your mother's genofixing made certain you would not be a cripple or mentally subnormal. The rest is chance. I was brought into being with the freedom to be myself; if what that general plan and that particular luck produced is something a majority — a majority, mark you; not all — of one SC admissions board decides is not what they just happen to want, is it my fault? Is it?" "No," Gurgeh sighed, looking down. "Oh, it's all so wonderful in the Culture, isn't it, Gurgeh; nobody starves and nobody dies of disease or natural disasters and nobody and nothing's exploited, but there's still luck and heartache and joy, there's still chance and advantage and disadvantage.

It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.

It’s not one of our finest hours.

It's so torturously true that wealthy does rhyme with healthy and yet poor does not mean to pour! If by showing off you look more like a dumb, being smart doesn't bring any luck if you are about to become a boasting bastard Try to strangle a stolen stone in the middle of a world so wrong or perpetrate a pearly trait in no more than a perishing fate and all your brightness goes down the drain.

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.

it takes only a moment for the destiny to flip over

It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so.