Luck Quotes
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
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When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.
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People make their own luck.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.
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It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.
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If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck.
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
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I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.
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I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
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If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.
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Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.
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See Scott run, Run Scott run. See Scott die, No such luck.
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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
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You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
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You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.
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Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.
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I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
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All I can tell people in the Keys who are trying to ride this one out is one of these days your luck is going to run out.
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I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
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Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.
