Luck Quotes - Page 9

A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

It's never too late to change your luck

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

For me it’s always just been about experiencing the things I love and documenting them. I have gotten a lot of joy out of what I do, and I feel lucky to be able to spread that joy.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.