Luck Quotations | Page 6

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.

We're having a little bit of tough luck this year with our seniors.

We are talking about a special player, the one who would mean a lot to us. Anyhow, I wish him a lot of luck in his career.

Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.

If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

Good night, and good luck.

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

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

We usually create our own luck with defensive intensity, creating turnovers. We got none of that and when we didn't get anything done in the first quarter it was like panic set in. We were waiting for the other shots to fall and didn't create our own luck.

When I want to make, I miss, and when I want to miss, that happens. You can call that luck or bad luck.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

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

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

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.

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

I’ve read a lot of scripts and I’m really luck to be able to play a woman who’s funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I’m really lucky.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

You look at that and you think it's luck - it's a fluke thing. When you have eight, seven freshman, it takes a long time to click.

You lose a couple games and you think it's bad luck and it'll come back, but with such a long losing streak, it made us take a look at everything again and make sure we make the adjustments before the playoffs. I really meant it when I said this will make us a better team.

When you're out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitcher's attitude -- his utter confidence that he has an advantage of will and luck and guts over the hitter -- is almost as important as his stuff.

We got one goal and could have gotten some more, but we did not have any luck hitting the post, ... This may be the game to get the monkey off our back with this stadium.

We're longtime friends, we're golfing buddies. I told him, 'Good luck in retirement. Of all the people I know you deserve it,' and I said, 'I love you' and he said he loved me.

Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become a graffiti artist so I could have somebody else tell me what to do. If you're the type who gets sentimental about people scribbling over your stuff, I suggest graffiti is probably not the right hobby for you.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

We're not getting any luck. Every game something like that happens.

This season has gone great, other than two races, ... I got in an accident with Bourdais in Mexico, which put me out of the race, and then I was leading in Toronto and ran out of gas. We had those two races where we had bad luck and Bourdais hasn't had any bad luck at all this season. We just need to try and continue to get top-three finishes at every race and do what we can to catch Bourdais.

We had some luck with us tonight, ... We were fortunate to stay in this game. We made a lot of mistakes, obviously, but we learned from them.

We had some lucky breaks and some bad luck.

We are looking for consistency and effort from our offense to get where we think we should be. Oakdale had some bad luck versus Central and they will be well prepared (tonight).

We probably played 30 possessions of zone, which is more than we played all year. It gave us a chance to hang in the game because fouls were becoming a factor early. With zone, a little bit of it is luck and you have to hope they miss some shots. We were fortunate that they did with a lot of those possessions.

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

We did what we wanted to do. We had a game plan and we stuck to it. ... A four-point game, that's basically one possession (that makes the difference). We did everything we could do, they've proven that they're the better team. We've got a lot of respect for them and wish them all the luck the rest of the way through the post-season.

Wheeler's Luck is strongly promoted as a New Zealand play and in the past that may have been downplayed in the publicity, and that it is now so much a part of the marketing shows we are getting over our cultural cringe factor.

We are playing better; we just need a little luck at getting the ball to hit the holes instead of hitting to people. I have told the girls to keep hitting and eventually the ball will drop in for us.

We want to have two major bowl games in town. And it's been the luck of this town that we've had high-scoring games.

We'd like to go home with a win. All you can do is stay positive. We've got a great group of guys. We've been in every game. We just have to hope our luck changes.

We dodged a bullet there. We had good luck on our side.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

We worked a lot on our passing. Castle Rock played hard and they gave us a tough game, especially in the first half. They are much improved over last year and I wish them luck in their league.

We work on time clock management every day in practice, but tonight, we didn't handle the situation very well. Some of the decisions we made at the end are the same ones that have been hurting us during this stretch of bad luck we're having.

Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Luck is not a business model.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.