Luck Quotes
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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.
P. T. Barnum
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It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,
Hall Caine
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Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.
David Leitch
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The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.
Kate Reardon
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid
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There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.
Lajos Kossuth
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
Barry Ritholtz
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The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.
Bill Smith
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Because it's his bad luck to be the best.
Thomas Harris
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She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.
Joan Cusack
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
Cecelia Ahern
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Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett
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The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'
Dinah Manoff
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A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
Margery Allingham
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I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.
Donnie Iris
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
James Agee
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Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
Adam McKay
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You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.
Kylie Minogue
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
E. W. Howe