Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

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 bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

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 such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

There's potential for it being soon. The reality is that there are only 'X' positions available, so it's a matter of luck or timing. They are people positions, and Kim is incredibly qualified.

There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.

The thing I have really enjoyed lately is to realise I know people, and good people everywhere. What I enjoy is meeting people, staying at their places, discover a city that way. And I found out this can be done because there is always a potential friend anywhere. I have the luck to have old friends who stay friends for eternity. They are my stable basis, my territory.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali

The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.