Don’t minimize the importance of luck in determining life’s course.

Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?””No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck.””And observation. I found it.””You did. And I could kiss you for it. You...

Love is like a unicorn with a rainbow for a horn. What I mean is it’s rare, and you’re lucky if you see it once, or at the most twice, in a given week.

I am two lucky guys.

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

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...

I’m looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what...

Luck is the residue of design.

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

He obviously saw when the pattern started to emerge. I don’t know whether this is luck or just good work.

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture...

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

The cards always look different when it’s your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement, and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career...

The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work… hard work of course!

Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again… said a shadow at the window… and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time…But the wolf… the wolf only needs enough...

It’s a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But...

We’ve done a good job the last two years. We need better luck with our injury situation and we have gone through some things.

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the...

Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation

You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won’t cut you. I wouldn’t like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.

Stop believing the false hope that “if it’s meant to be” it will happen. If that were true, everyone would be content, wealthy, fit and have great relationships. You must plan, act, persevere, make better...

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he...

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

He was mad, but he told me good luck and that he understands.

Patience’s design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless...

Above all, he liked it that everything was one’s own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug...

I wear a tinfoil suit, because you never know when you’ll be going to the moon. I’ll probably have more luck finding the love of my life on a lonely and dead space rock.

Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather...

It’s all about being in the right place at the right time, and luck plays a big role in that because the ball could’ve went a different trajectory. It’s just a great feeling right now....

Our life is our only chance…

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

After bad luck last year with my thigh, and now this, … I’m extremely disappointed, above all, that I can’t play at home for the second straight year in Basel. But I’m hoping to go...

Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything’s certain.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What i’m saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune’s a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Good luck’ is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn’t go ahead with a traveler.

My mother believed in God’s will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good...

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave...

I changed my shoes, my shorts, my shirt, my tights, everything. That first uniform was bad luck for me.

Knock on wood for good luck—and if you think that’s the best way to get the door to open.

There’s randomness and there’s the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it big. More it happens, more is our guy forced to believe in luck....

…but I like who I became just fine. That’s the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as “ordinary blessings.