Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

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

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

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.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

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 head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.

The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers... think things through and... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's learning experience. For the best pilots, flying is an obsession, the one thing in life they must do continually. The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. Experience is everything. The eagerness to learn how and why every piece of equipment works is everything. And luck is everything, too.

There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.” “But I,” said Clary, “actually am.

There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.

There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.