Luck Quotes - Page 5

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous "Tomahawk Toss" that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

What do you think you're doing?

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.

The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.