Luck Quotes - Page 24

• If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

  George Saunders

  Higher Ground, Needs, Pieces

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Want

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

  Hilary Swank

  Believe, Opportunity, Preparation

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fortune, Irritating

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• If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

  Edna Buchanan

  Bad Luck, Ifs

  Edna Buchanan (2003). “The Ice Maiden”, Center Point Pub

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• The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

  Alice Miller

  Family, Opportunity, Self

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• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  Janet Jackson

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

  Margery Allingham

  Mean, Superstitions, Coincidence

  Margery Allingham (2014). “Police at the Funeral”, p.68, Random House

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• Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

  Christy Mathewson

  Break, Combination

  Christy Mathewson, John Neville Wheeler (1994). “Pitching in a Pinch, Or, Baseball from the Inside”, p.233, U of Nebraska Press

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• You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

  Margaret Walker

  Causes, Rich, Born

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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• That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

  Sue Grafton

  Way, Bears, Sometimes

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.76, Macmillan

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• it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

  Laura Lippman

  Smart, Lucky, Being Smart

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.286, Faber & Faber

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• There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.

  Vernon Lee

  Eye, Good Luck, Mean

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

  Sara Paretsky

  Good Luck, Lucky, Born

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• Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

  Nora Roberts

  Bad Luck, Determine

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.309, Penguin

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• I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.

  Ethel Smyth

  Running, Fate, Pieces

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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• 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.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Stupidity, Selfishness, Idiot

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.361, Hachette UK

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• Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

  Sandeep Kumar

  Motivational, Hard Work, Race

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• A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

  Christina Stead

  Believe, Son, Men

  'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'

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• It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

  Nancy Pickard

  Fate, Destiny, Fortune

  Nancy Pickard (1989). “Marriage Is Murder”, Pocket

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• With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. That is, we will be able to inflict extremely heavy damage on the enemy.

  Yoshijiro Umezu

  Land, Enemy, Able

  "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, 2003.

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• You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.

  Dermot O'Leary

  Good Luck, Brilliant, Runaway

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2015

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• It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

  Chuck Norris

  Stars, People, Guy

  Source: www.cbn.com

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