Sometimes, you don’t get what you want the most… At other times, you’re just lucky.

I’ve found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

The luck we’ve had has been kind of unexplainable, but this was a good rebound for us.

But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again–after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.

Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This...

Luck always favors those who are bold.

I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck… Luck was always part of it, one way or another

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter...

Don’t act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

So doesn’t that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you’re born. And it’s all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It’s all just...

You’re a hope-killer. ‘Cause at least if you’d done it on your back, that’s something we c’n understand. Something we c’n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that– it’s a million-to-one chance, and you already...

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf...

My guys did an outstanding job, … They really had to work hard and while it looked like luck was totally against us, we actually came out gaining eight points which puts us in the...

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

The [dirt infield] does throw us off. We’ve never had good luck there [at Lake Region].

Her last name was Purchase, and I was sold. I tried to buy, but as there was only one of her, she was OUT OF STOCK. Better luck tomorrow.

My lucky rabbit’s foot has kept me alive all these years. Hopefully it will do so indefinitely. Immortality through sheer luck.

I don’t think carrying an umbrella during monsoons is luck.

Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won’t.

Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I’m utterly still; I feel my...

luck is distributed at six in the morning

A live broke man is ‘luckier’ than a dead rich man.

Sometimes our fate – our destiny turns out to be something we had never thought of.

I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers’ meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble,And mine were steady;So I was readyWhen trouble came.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction...

When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is...

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they’d bust it to Corporal!

If I could, I’d write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Well, luck is for fools. It’s all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Million-to-one chances…crop up nine times out of ten.

Good luck beats early rising.

Wayne’s a little attached to that hat,” Waxillium said. “He thinks it’s lucky.”Wayne: “It is lucky. I ain’t never died while wearing that hat.” Marasi frowned. “I … I’m not sure I know how to...

He deserves a shot to try to get a ‘W.’ He’s had some tough luck.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.

Majority of people don’t see the amount of work and years ambitious people invest behind the scenes, but as soon as they succeed with their dreams, they would insinuate that they were lucky.

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by...