Luck Quotes

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

~ H.a.l. Fisher

Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

~ Twyla Tharp

Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.

~ Onyi Anyado

Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

~ Anthony Liccione

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

~ Dean Koontz

He couldn’t believe how lucky he was to have found a girl like her. She may have been the perfect woman for him.

~ Jason Medina

A fool believes that math adds up, but also believes that they can master luck.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don't believe in luck. Good or bad.

~ Hillary Depiano

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

~ P.j. O'rourke

Heads: This girlTails: That girl

~ Lisa Schroeder

Luck and nature shapes our imagination.

~ Kishore Bansal

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

~ Roman Payne

I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques that will guarantee success. Parameters exist that, if followed, will ensure a business can continue, but you cannot clearly define our business success and then bottle it as you would a perfume. It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team round you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula. Business is a fluid, changing substance.

~ Richard Branson

If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work... hard work of course!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Luckily we don't sleep standing. Who knows where the dream will take us!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Majority of people don't see the amount of work and years ambitious people invest behind the scenes, but as soon as they succeed with their dreams, they would insinuate that they were lucky.

~ Hafiz

How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.

~ Manu Joseph

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason. By that thinking, surely she was not Bad Luck, but Good, undefined.

~ J.d. Lakey

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

~ Stewart O'nan

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

~ Roman Payne

The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble,And mine were steady;So I was readyWhen trouble came.

~ A.e. Housman

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

~ Al-Mas'udi

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.

~ Shiv Khera

We get success by hard work and failure by hard luck

~ Ravi Ranjan Goswami

It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail.

~ Sabaa Tahir

Success is no mystery, but simply the result of consistently applying some basic principles. The reverse is just as true: Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. All of this might sound too simplistic, but the fact is that most truths are very simple. I'm not saying they are easy, but they certainly are simple.

~ Shiv Khera

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.

~ Jeffery Russell

He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it).

~ Mel Odom

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

~ Tahir Shah

Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.

~ S.a. Tawks

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

~ Christopher Hitchens