Best 1228 quotes in «luck quotes» category

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks down a lot of those insecurities and you can just say, "Okay, I trust this person, and I respect them and know they respect me," and then you can just go with it. When that doesn't exist, it's a lot harder to let go.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

I am the representative of all the sick people and what they are doing to me is only the worst case right now, but there will be others. I am living on borrowed time anyway. I owe this part of my life to luck and modern medical science. But I can't imagine what the rest of it will be like if they won't let me use medical marijuana.

I believe that there are three conditions to a woman’s beauty. First, you must realize that not all women are beautiful all of the time. Sometimes beauty comes on a subconscious level. When she is in love, or has met someone new and exciting, she shines. Second, you must understand that life is unfair. Beauty is something that, for some, must be worked at. The third condition is luck. Some women can just be lucky.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.

I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help," "Why not?" "My lady, you make your own luck.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

I'd say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn't do his part, then it's just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative.