Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.

I stare at him, trying to comprehend what he’s done. He saved Magiano from falling overboard. He saved me. He is taking this mission seriously, however much he loathes us. “Maybe next time,” he says to me with that smile, “you won’t be so lucky.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

It is about looking straight ahead and not shifting that focus. Keep your eyes on the prize!

It is impossible to make your own luck when you don't have the ingredients.

It is impossible to make your own luck if you don’t have the right ingredients.

It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.

It is this moment that we should feel and focus on. Having must begin right now. It’s not the future, but the present.

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

It's luck. All is luck when skill's played out. It was luck left me with a face that didn't fit in Contact, it's luck that's made you a great game-player, it's luck that's put you here tonight. Neither of us were fully planned, Jernau Gurgeh; your genes determined you and your mother's genofixing made certain you would not be a cripple or mentally subnormal. The rest is chance. I was brought into being with the freedom to be myself; if what that general plan and that particular luck produced is something a majority — a majority, mark you; not all — of one SC admissions board decides is not what they just happen to want, is it my fault? Is it?" "No," Gurgeh sighed, looking down. "Oh, it's all so wonderful in the Culture, isn't it, Gurgeh; nobody starves and nobody dies of disease or natural disasters and nobody and nothing's exploited, but there's still luck and heartache and joy, there's still chance and advantage and disadvantage.

It is what we employ from the subconscious mind that is the most productive for manifesting!

It's good to be mad for someone, but that's great if you are made for same one.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.

It’s not one of our finest hours.

It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail.

It's so torturously true that wealthy does rhyme with healthy and yet poor does not mean to pour! If by showing off you look more like a dumb, being smart doesn't bring any luck if you are about to become a boasting bastard Try to strangle a stolen stone in the middle of a world so wrong or perpetrate a pearly trait in no more than a perishing fate and all your brightness goes down the drain.

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.

it takes only a moment for the destiny to flip over

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.

I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.

I've always believed in luck. I love the fact that people can change their lives instantly.

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

I was just trying to open the door... but the walls fall down

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it.

I will work hard and harder as my luck is not on good terms with me. I will replace it so simply.

Life is not scripted like a movie.

Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.

Luck does favor the prepared

Luck does not exist. You do it right, things go well; you do it wrong, things go bad.

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.

Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Luck is not real, it a simple word .

Luck, Love and Life. The three of them are interrelated. Once you are in love, luck favors you and your life takes the good path at every turn. Once you get luck on your side, you find your life to be worthy and love at your doorstep. Once you realise the importance of your life, love comes all the way to you and brings luck all along.

Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin.

Luck and hope decides life..

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

Luck hides behind sweat and toil.

Luck is a slur used against those who achieve and are willing to work for it.

luck is distributed at six in the morning

LUCK" IS LUCK; DON'T GIVE ADJECTIVES TO IT.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Lucky is the one who misses the wrong train!

Lucky people are the worst.