Luck Quotes
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If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.
William Lashner
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
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It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
Michy Batshuayi
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I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.
Iain Banks
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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.
Cosima Spender
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This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
William Shakespeare
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Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
Caprice Crane
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I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.
Terry Teachout
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Charm is a matter of luck, but I’m sure: to some extent, every woman has it.
Ornella Muti
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Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
George Eliot
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Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
Allegra Goodman
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
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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.
Ivanka Trump
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I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.
Theo de Raadt
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Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.
Rick Majerus
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Hopefully, it's nothing and he'll be ready for the season. I wish him luck and hope he gets healthy.
Carlos Zambrano
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I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.
David Slade
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Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
William Shakespeare
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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.
Peter Ackroyd
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Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.
Carlos Zambrano
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You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.
Raymond Aubrac
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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.
Craig Fugate
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But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again - after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.
Catherynne M. Valente