Luck Quotes - Page 26

• Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

  Henry Ford

  Destiny, World, Excuse

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• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

  Russell Banks

  Lasts, Lifetime, Young

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• We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.

  Steve Kerr

  Night, Nba Championships, Years

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• An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

  Parker Posey

  Careers, Actors, Right Time

  "Between Luck and Resilience: Parker Posey on ‘Irrational Man’ and Working with Woody Allen". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2015.

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• I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Good Luck, Bad Luck, Handle

  Source: www.levity.com

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• I'd say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn't do his part, then it's just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative.

  John Wes Townley

  Car, Negative, Driving

  Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.usatoday.com. July 30, 2013.

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• I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them.

  Michael Waltrip

  Believe, Winning, Race

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

  Richard Branson

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Choices, Guy

  "COMIC-CON 2007 EXCLUSIVE: Henry Rollins Talks Wrong Turn 2!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. July 28, 2007.

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• Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.

  Suze Orman

  Dream, Jobs, Good Luck

  "Suze Orman Says Oprah Taught Her An 'Encyclopedia Version Of Life'". "Tell Me More" with Micchel Martin, www.npr.org. May 24, 2011.

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• For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Catching On, Comedian, Culture

  "A chat with Jim Gaffigan". Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

  Robert Fripp

  Beginners

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• Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

  Sonia

  Stubborn, Talent, Streaks

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• Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

  Mary Stewart

  Wells, Tempted, Ifs

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Nine Coaches Waiting”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Pieces, Born, Misfortunes

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• First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

  Barry Manilow

  Running, Song, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck.

  Karen Russell

  Understanding, Events, Doe

  "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

  Jeannette Walls

  Too Much, Spirit, Meanness

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Fall, Passion, Good Luck

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• By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

  Errol Flynn

  Choices, Actors, Instinct

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

  David Galula

  Doe, Policy

  David Galula (2006). “Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice”, p.47, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.

  Jandy Nelson

  Knows, Ifs, Who You Are

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.104, Penguin

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• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

  Bill Buckner

  Baseball, Average, Games

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