Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

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 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 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 nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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!

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 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.