Luck Quotes - Page 4

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

There's luck in odd numbers.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.