Luck Quotations | Page 7

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

Luck never gives; it lends.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...

I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

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.

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

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

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

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

There also has to be some luck involved when you have a record like that against some team.

Wishing you a rainbow, For sunlight after showers— Miles and miles of Irish smiles, For golden happy hours— Shamrocks at your doorway, For luck and laughter too, And a host of friends that never ends, Each day your whole life through!

With a little bit of racing luck and a little bit of staying on top of our game and not let the big picture get away, we could do the same thing we did last year.

We were very lucky in that eight-year period, and the luck just ran out. We always thought it would run out.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

We contend that you have to keep a positive attitude. Luck follows those who are persistent and patient. You just keep your hook in the water and hope for the best.

We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,

We have good chances in most of the races and that's all you can ask. You need luck to win a race, anywhere.

A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

When I was down at states, she would call me before every match to wish me good luck and encourage me to do my best. She knows how nervous I get before I wrestle and just talking to her would calm me down a lot. Without her being there, I don't think I could have done what I did in the tournaments.

When bad luck comes along, you've got to have a lot of momentum and a lot of forward motion. But Bush didn't do a lot of things that would have gotten him through those moments. When the hurricanes hit, when Katrina hit in particular, he already had lost momentum. And he slammed into a wall.

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,May luck be yours on Halloween.

This round was what I neeed. Everything clicked. ... I needed some luck with good play and I got some breaks. The eagle at 16 was key.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Davey, Rob and Jeff for the time they have invested in the organization and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors. However at this time we feel it necessary to head in a different direction entering the 2006 season.

We wouldn't have wanted Bradford in the first round but it's the luck of the draw. It could have been a lot easier. We know what to expect. We're not scared of them. It would have been nice to play them at home but it will be a good game.

Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend.

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

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

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

I wish you way more than luck.

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.

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain.

Playboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails from Playboy playmates. After hearing this the U.S. troops said 'Just our luck, we get emails from playmates, but we're embedded with Geraldo.'

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women.

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

The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.

Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home

You have to create your own luck. At 2-0 the match is over. With a Beckham penalty it is 90 percent luck for a goalkeeper and 10 percent concentration.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

We want some luck to get a home-field game the first round of the playoffs. It can happen.

We've waited long enough. I just hope we have better luck this time.

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

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.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Won't happen to us. This leg's got more luck in it.

Woody threw the ball well, just had some tough luck in the (two-run) first inning.

Wouldn't it be great if it was somebody down on their luck who got the $365 million? Hopefully, they would be generous and leave us a tip.

A real man makes his own luck,

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

I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

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.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

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

I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.