Luck Quotes
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Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
Karen Finerman -
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill
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Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.
Euripides -
There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
Albert Camus -
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Patrick Stewart -
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher -
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
Olivia De Havilland -
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
Jack Canfield -
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
Sam Shepard -
You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
Ian Rankin -
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
Teddy Sears -
I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.
Kathrine Narducci -
I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
D. B. Sweeney
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles -
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian -
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes -
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
Dave Thomas -
First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
Gaines Adams
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For a long time I've been walking down life's road with my two pals, Bad Luck and Bad Choices. Fortunately I'm a big believer in new beginnings, new friends, and running from my problems. So one day I decided to head for the island. Aloha, my name is Jack.
Elmore Leonard -
There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.
Cherie Lunghi -
Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
Zachary Levi -
If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there's a lot of scaffolding? I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.
Lauren Groff