Luck quotes

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F Scott Fitzgerald

I score many lucky goals in my football life because I am always there, trying to shoot. For me the best goals are the ones like this when the ball just crosses the line.
Mateja Kezman

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don't have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I'm lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I'm OK.
Kirsten Dunst

I wouldn't put it down as a mistake, it was just a piece of very bad luck [on Paul Robinson missing the ball when clearing for England allowing an easy Croatia goal]
Pat Jennings

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.
Babyface

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
Ruth Gordon

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
Arnold Palmer

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler

I thought I'd be stuck there for hours. Luckily she was marrying a doctor.
Comedy Dave

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker

I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win. But with him, it's impossible. He is a great player. He can go far here
Richard Gasquet

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
Deborah Kerr

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Christina Stead

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.
John Osbourne

'Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do you?'
Clint Eastwood

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert

Then come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind,
And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind.
Henry Jackson Van Dyke

The champion makes his own luck.
Red Blaik

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.
Solon

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.
Valentino Rossi

He's very lucky. He's tall and very good looking, with a fabulous smile. He's charming and has eyes that are a little bit curious: always looking for something new and interesting. It's a great quality [on Prince Harry]
Mario Testino

The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews, Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.
Jerry Seinfeld

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
Richard Branson

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

When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Bruce Springsteen

You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.
Ogden Nash

I have loved being a tennis player, I am lucky to have been among a great generation of French flair tennis players such as Henri Leconte.
Guy Forget

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian

As an Australian I’m lucky that I have done a lot of camping here but I suspect nothing on the scale of what I’m going to face in the jungle
Kimberley Davies

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

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

Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight. She would none of all my posies-- Bade me gather her blue roses.

Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.

Home I came at wintertide, But my silly love had died Seeking with her latest breath Roses from the arms of Death.
Rudyard Kipling

Not every actor is as lucky as I am.
Zoe Lucker

I have only one real hobby: my husband. [Either lucky or poor husband then!]
Florence Harding

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie

I'm negotiating for him to stay. Emmanuel is lucky for me. He's more and more interested, and even sometimes puts pressure on me, because he says, 'Tin Tin' - that's what he calls me - 'You must win'
Justine Henin-Hardenne

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Darrell Royal

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
Nelly

He just said he had had enough and wished me good luck [on O'Sullivan conceding a match early!]
Stephen Hendry

We're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well
Caroline Corr

The luck I've had has all been bad. I've had the Concorde crash, 9/11,foot and mouth, the Gulf war, Sars and high fuel prices. It might make you doubt my sanity, but I've enjoyed it.
Rod Eddington

They saw me getting dressed through the window [unlucky view for some tree surgeons]
Tess Daly

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

A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value
Caroline Norton

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.
Eric Avery

I was very lucky to come through at the time I did, with the growing interest and demand for animation and animators - it requires a great deal of patience and a good eye for detail.
Annette Funicello

The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few.
Enzo Ferrari

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
Margaret Mead

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