Quotes on Luck

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

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

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.