Luck Quotes
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Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.
Kathleen Kennedy
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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.
Bob Goodlatte
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It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr
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I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
Dennis Quaid
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That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
Joan Leslie
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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.
Craig Newmark
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Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
Peter Lindbergh
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It doesn't matter how smart you are; to audition for 'Jeopardy,' you just have to luck out and know what they're asking you that day.
Drew Carey
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
J. Christopher Herold
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I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Brian Tracy
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Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.
Marge Piercy
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Never unreal, Pain is a challenge to the universal fiction. What luck to be the only sensation granted a content, if not a meaning!
Emil Cioran
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I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.
Jamie Lawson
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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.
Loretta Swit
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The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."
Napoleon Hill
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It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck.
Kay Cannon
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I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.
Melanie Mayron
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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Gene Tierney
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
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There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
Derek Walcott
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
Jamaica Kincaid
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You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.
Marlon Wayans