Luck Quotes - Page 6

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.

I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

To be successful you can't show up to the potluck with just a fork.

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.

In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.