Luck Quotes - Page 5

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling."That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!

If you believe in “luck”, always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless".Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word “happiness” was derived from the same root “hap”, similar to the word “happening.” Depending on what's happening in our lives, we're either happy or sad. It's based on pure luck and good fortune.

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

I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that

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

You can influence a whole plethora of things, and just as they can influence you then you can influence them.

It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.

At forty two years, Sona Kilroy stood tall and strapping, a powerful figure. Rising to the rank of Admiral in the Corsair fleet was no easy feat. It took intelligence, talent, determination, resilience, creative thinking, brute force, and sheer cunning to achieve – and perhaps also a large slice of luck.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

You can make as many NAPS as you like, but unless they have clean language in the narration then you could well be sabotaging your own dreams!

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 follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.

You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you you've got no luck?""I suspected it," said Raymond ironically.

Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people.

I mean everyone has a different opinion of you – so many boxes for you to fit into!

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

I am not sure if some people are luckier than others, but one thing’s sure: right place, right time, you can define it however you want, some people get more opportunities than others.

Remember: worry, fear, and negative thoughts produce a yield from those thoughts that have to be inevitably reaped after they have been sown!

I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I'm really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.

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 the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

Aren't we lucky to be us?

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

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 looked like that. He smiled. 'With luck we shall make it, and without luck we shall not.'

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Do adults realize how lucky they are?

To love is a natural instinct. To be loved is “something”. To be loved like crazy, like their life depends on you is a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. How many of us can keep their right hand on their heart and say that they have actually experienced something like that? Not many, I guess. Because you know what, once-in-a-lifetime moments, well, come once in a lifetime. You either have to extremely, enormously and tremendously lucky or have to manage to fascinate a poet or a painter or someone really very naïve or mentally unsound.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Once you clear that mind clutter out, the doorways for what you desire are open when you start using NAPS!

Luck often sides with the able.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason. By that thinking, surely she was not Bad Luck, but Good, undefined.

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

If I could offer only one tool to help you attract more of what you want, it would be what is commonly called NAPS (Night Audio Programs).

Life is full of different opportunities and decisions to make, and these decisions are what mold our future and “destiny”, and the results of these decisions are a product of hard work and determination and just maybe a little bit of luck.

Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.

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

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

Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

In the game of cards, he would always get the worst hand. In the game of dice, he always got the worst numbers. By the age 7 he had already accepted that luck was not his thing. But for the first time, he wanted to get that perfect hand. For the first time he wanted to be the one, to be the one whom she would like over all others.

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

A strong man can make his own luck.

Everything in life is luck.

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

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky accident?

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

Clear out those things which compromise your consciousness, and then you have completed the first of a two part action to manifesting your desires.

About Hollywood.I feel like it’s a big ocean, full of bottom feeders, midlevel fish, the occasional shark, and some wonderful savvy whales, the elders, and the ones who guide you on your way. If you’re lucky enough, you get to be a dolphin and have your waves broken by the passage of these elders before you, but at the same time, you get an occasional shark bite in the tail and maybe one of the bottom feeders comes up and takes a little nibble. But I see myself as cresting a series of waves, dipping down, sometimes, lower than I’d like, but mainly kind of happily staying above. (smiles and takes a long drag of her cigarette) And, of course, I try to avoid the fishnets.

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

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

Luck is what you have left over after you give ioo percent.