Quotes on Luck

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

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 wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

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.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Sometimes there's luck, _x000D_ When there is you stock up on it _x000D_ and wait for the other times

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - it’s a result of that collision. You’ve got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If you’ve made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. That’s how you become valuable.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.