Luck Quotes - Page 22

Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

The thing I have really enjoyed lately is to realise I know people, and good people everywhere. What I enjoy is meeting people, staying at their places, discover a city that way. And I found out this can be done because there is always a potential friend anywhere. I have the luck to have old friends who stay friends for eternity. They are my stable basis, my territory.

I've never experienced a bad situation with men being sexist with me. I've been very lucky - even when I was just starting and modeling in Milan and Paris.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.