Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

For the hard roads, you must have good shoes! And your brain and your luck are your best shoes ever!

Fortune favours the bold.

Fortune favours the audacious.

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

Going viral isn’t random, magic, or luck. It’s a science.

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Good luck with your asparagus.

Good fortune has side effects.

Good music always defeats bad luck

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.