261 quotes found
“If you are not lucky enough, you can’t reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need ‘luck’ to reach tomorrow, you still ne...”
“This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.”
“I’m so far from lucky, I’m kissing its ass from the other side.”
“Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.”
“I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.”
“I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.”
“In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.”
“Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.”
“No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.”
“Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!”
“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.”
“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.”
“The worst cynicism a belief in luck.”
“Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.”
“It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.”
“Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.”
“Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.”
“Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.”
“I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go u...”
“I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.”
