While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give ‘luck’ a chance to operate.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design...

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or...

As it is there isn’t a single thing isn’t an opportunity for some ‘alert’ person, including practically everybody by the ‘greed’, that, they are ‘alive’, therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are ‘conditions’. Gravelly Hill...

Life is depend on luckAnd luck depends on you

Winning the lottery is all skill, and that’s why I don’t play—because it would be unfair to all the other competitors. I’m like that as a lover too, always thinking about the other competitors.

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck’s terrible.)

Ability and luck makes success happen ,no matter what the circumstances are.

How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.

This will bring me luck in the new year.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence...

No One is Unlucky in this World”! ..!!! “But Ups and Downs created by ourselves”.

Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

destiny”, and the results of these decisions are a product of hard work and determination and just maybe a little bit of luck.

If I’m lucky, I philosophize about life’s principles on worthwhile standards that meet the test of time. I say, if I’m lucky, because I could be born into a world where principles are drilled into...

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I’ve no more pluck than any man of my inches but I’d been about a good bit. I’d seen adventure and heard other fellows...

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

You look at that and you think it’s luck – it’s a fluke thing. When you have eight, seven freshman, it takes a long time to click.

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he’d been waiting for her. And there she was.

What is luck’, he said, ‘but the ability to exploit accidents?

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

Even a clock that’s broken is right twice a day.

But Gemma, you could change the world.””That should take far more than my power,” I say.”True. But change needn’t happen all at once. It can be small gestures.””Moments. Do you understand?” He’s looking at me...

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations – that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute...

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.

Fortune favors the brave…

We say ‘tough luck, you have to sell it in stores,’

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a...

I went to a potluck. I brought my own pot—and luck. The pot was empty, just like my promise to bring food the next time.

A strong man can make his own luck.

Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting,...

I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

We’ve got a good team and a good squad and although you always need luck, we feel we’ve got a really good chance.

Ideas doesn’t make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

I don’t believe in luck.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

Beginner’s luck is great for beginners.

Good luck needs no explanation.

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It’s the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

I thought Clay was outstanding. He was a victim of bad luck there in the sixth and got to his pitch count [78 pitches], so he came out. After that inning, we came back.

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking...

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

That’s like being a hockey player born on January I.