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Luck Is Quotes

They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured.
"Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to."
"Are you sure?"
"She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?
- Joe Abercrombie

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
- Joe Abercrombie

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
- James Agee

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
- Ernest Hemingway

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
- Woody Allen

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.
- Oprah Winfrey

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
- Frank Sinatra

Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
- Steve Maraboli

...luck is not to be coerced.
- Albert Camus

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Rodney Dangerfield

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty.
No such thing as luck when everything's certain.
- Toba Beta

Luck is not a business model.
- Anthony Bourdain

Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny.
- Carroll Bryant

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.
- Emily Giffin

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.
- Stephen King

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
- Victor Cherbuliez

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
- Robertson Davies

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
- Emily Dickinson

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence."
"Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.
- Kate Elliott

Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.
- Victor Hugo

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- James A Garfield

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
- Samuel Goldwyn

Sometimes in the news, "luck" is just a matter of "capitalizing on someone else's pain.
- Mira Grant

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- Bret Harte

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
- Amy Hempel

Luck is an art.
- George Roy Hill

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
- Alfred Hitchcock

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
- Eric Hoffer

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.
- Elizabeth Jane Howard

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
- Brett Hull

Luck is statistics taken personally.
- Penn Jillette

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
- Guy Kawasaki

But luck is just throwing dice.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
- Ray Kroc

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
- Titus Livius

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
- James Russell Lowell

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
- Patrick Macgill

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca

Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.
- Colleen Mccullough

Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey

Luck is not as random as you think.
Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
- Vera Nazarian

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.
- Joan Lowery Nixon

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.
- Randy Pausch

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
- Randy Pausch

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. The Last Lecture
- Randy Pausch

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
- James Cash Penney

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
- Amy Tan

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
- Gregory David Roberts

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.
- R A Salvatore

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
- Howard Schultz

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
- Iain Duncan Smith

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
- Tris Speaker

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
- Don Sutton

Luck is the grand equalizer.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
- Brian Tracy

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
- E B White

Complaining about your luck is not allowed. Rokutarou, you're not the only one that matters but they leave that aside and do their best.If you start comparing misfortunes, it would never end. What's the meaning in that? Everyone knows you had a hard time.
- Chica Umino

I believe in god. I also believe that you should never ask god to make your dreams come true. You have to work for your dreams. And dream actually, with all your mind body and soul. I don't believe luck is when a super power grants us what we wished for. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. So we need to be prepared all the time. Our dream awaits us. It's already on its way. We just need to be prepared when it gets to us.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
- Denzel Washington

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
- Denzel Washington

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
- Denzel Washington

Luck is believing you're lucky.
- Tennessee Williams

Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
- P G Wodehouse

Good luck is a residue of preparation.
- Jack Youngblood

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
- Timothy Zahn

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)
- Timothy Zahn

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.
- Slavoj Zizek

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