Chance favors the prepared mind.
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.
Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.
Luck cannot change birth.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
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