Luck Quotes - Page 26

I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob. I'm just lucky to be the one who got the chance.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

I've been blessed with an amazing group of guys in my first year, I can't believe how lucky I am.

I am very lucky because everything that I do is exciting to me. It's always new.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

Luck Doesn't exist, only hard (work) works

When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

I was unlucky, like my country.

Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

I just want to say I've been lucky enough to travel all over the world and every time I come back to Manchester I'm addicted to this place.

You can live a charmed life by causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the source of 'charm' -- of charming moments and experiences -- in the life of another. Be everyone else's Lucky Charm! Make all who you touch today feel 'lucky' that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watch things change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

I like believing. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than peoples imaginations.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.