Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks down a lot of those insecurities and you can just say, "Okay, I trust this person, and I respect them and know they respect me," and then you can just go with it. When that doesn't exist, it's a lot harder to let go.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

I believe that there are three conditions to a woman’s beauty. First, you must realize that not all women are beautiful all of the time. Sometimes beauty comes on a subconscious level. When she is in love, or has met someone new and exciting, she shines. Second, you must understand that life is unfair. Beauty is something that, for some, must be worked at. The third condition is luck. Some women can just be lucky.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.

I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.