Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?

I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement

I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

i've come to deliver some bad luck -train heartnet

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

I wish you luck with a capital F.

I wish you the beast of luck!

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

Lady luck is trying his best for Liverpool

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

Life is luck, make it.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Luck, be a lady tonight.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.