Luck Quotes - Page 8

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

The only way is to keep going forward. Ceaseless attention isn’t what creates success. Yes, give one thought the initial boost it needs, and want it like a lifeline to a new life, a new beginning, a new whatever! Then just let it go!

Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.

The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them. Attached to them are what I've borrowed, perhaps unconsciously, bit by bit, of persons I have seen or noticed or remembered in the flesh - a cast of countenance here, a manner of walking there, that jumps to the visualizing mind when a story is under way. I don't write by invasion into the life of a real person: my own sense of privacy is too strong for that; and I also know instinctively that living people to whom you are close - those known to you in ways too deep, too overflowing, ever to be plumbed outside love - do not yield to, could never fit into, the demands of a story. Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write most entirely out of yourself, that a character becomes in its own right another human being on the page.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

You simply feel out for the thoughtwaves of those others with a similar thought, the attraction between minds. As you are all aware, like attracts like!

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 me at an early age and the idea of thinking for myself is not an option. From 'Fillossofee: Messages from a Grandfather' by Robert Gately

First opportunity is the golden opportunity.

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

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

Expanding on the age-old system of learning while you sleep through audio recordings, NAPS uses the exact same method as you would use for listening to any audio whilst sleeping.

Hard work, determination, and talent are key for any successful venture. But sometimes you need that fourth ingredient: dumb luck. Luck can never replace hard work and talent, but sometimes it can win out over both.

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky.

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.

The real Law of Attraction has many counterfeits which are more or less fascinating, but the results are worthless.

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

As ill-luck would have it.

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 when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.

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 or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it.

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

Your beliefs attract to you the life you experience.

What’s so funny? (Astrid)I’m just thinking, here I am a slave who touched a star who then made him a demigod. I have to be the luckiest bastard who ever lived. (Zarek)

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

I am not smart, I pay attention.I am not considerate, I listen.I am not patient, I make time. I’m not lucky, I work hard.

I am not lucky, but I am favoured because luck runs out; but God's favour will abide with me forever.

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

Go and wake up your luck.

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

Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence have had good luck. The former are better off than the latter in two respects only, whereas the poor but lucky man has the advantage in many ways; for though the rich have the means to satisfy their appetites and to bear calamities, and the poor have not, the poor, if they are lucky, are more likely to keep clear of trouble, and will have besides the blessings of a sound body, health, freedom from trouble, fine children, and good looks.Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word “happy” in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky.

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

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

Wherever you get your inspiration from, it is down to you to secure it or find your source. We are each in our own race, some slow, some still at the starting lines and some, well … not even in it! However I am sure you will agree that you have to be in it to win it.

Going one step beyond the Law of Attraction when using NAPS takes us back to the original way it was invoked, before the rehashed woo-woo!

Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative

The champion makes his own luck.

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 things coming our way, only I thought she said "fate" because she couldn't pronounce the "th" sound in "fa

Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky .

Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.

When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him.

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.

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

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.

For success we need to focus with a converging thought process.