Luck Quotes - Page 10

The dice of God are always loaded.

There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - it’s a result of that collision. You’ve got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If you’ve made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. That’s how you become valuable.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.