Quotes on Luck

For years, kids have been asking me what's the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you're lucky, everything works. I've been lucky.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood