Luck Quotes - Page 23

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

Good luck and good timing are the same thing.

Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I feel incredibly lucky to be working on a television show where the writing is always geared towards us growing and changing.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.