Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?" "Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

No longer what your belief about yourself is - if you've always been poor, if you've always been overweight, if you've always had rotten relationships, if your luck hasn't been good, if you don't attract into your life the things you want, if you've always been shy or always been aggressive - whatever it is and however long you've held it, the belief that you can't change it is not aligned with Source. Source says you can be anything. You can do anything. You're infinite.

My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.

My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?’ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leap’s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. ‘Did you lie about when he was born?’ translated Mosca.

My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

My right eye itches, some good luck is near.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.

Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Of course it's all luck.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

Once in a while a person does only one thing in his whole life, and we'll talk about that later, but a lot of times there is repetition. I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, "Luck favors the prepared mind." And I think that says it the way I believe it.

One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.