Luck Quotations

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

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

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

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 think the most fun part about working on 'Good Luck Charlie' is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They're so fun to be around, so that's probably the best part about working there.

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

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.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

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.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

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.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

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

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary,

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck. The present time together with the past will be judged by the great Joker: the world too late will be tired of him, and through the clergy oath-taker disloyal. The year of the great seventh number accomplished, it will appear at the time of the games of slaughter: not far from the great millenial age, when the buried will go out from their tombs.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

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

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

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

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

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

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

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

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!