261 quotes found
“The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.”
“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”
“Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.”
“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.”
“Care and diligence bring luck.”
“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”
“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.”
“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.”
“It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.”
“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
“Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he r...”
“The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.”
“Art depends on luck and talent.”
“I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.”
“My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.”
“Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.”
“My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I w...”
“Everything in life is luck.”
“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.”
“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.”
