Luck Quotes - Page 12

• A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

  Hugh Hefner

  Past, Said Life, Perspective

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• I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

  Grace Jones

  Philosophy, Good Luck, Self Confidence

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• That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

  Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

  Grateful, Return, Know How

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• You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

  Steve Backley

  Believe, Desire, Today

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• He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

  Chanakya

  Men, Religion, May

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• Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

  John Stuart Mill

  Photography, Foresight, Complicity

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• Your luck is how you treat people.

  Bette Davis

  People, Treats

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• Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Blessing, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jul 26, 2011

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• Health is not luck.
  We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Healing, Environment, Good Health

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• I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

  Joshua Leonard

  Proud, Witch, Film

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• I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

  Diego Simeone

  Believe, Stubbornness, Capacity

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• I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

  Susannah York

  Life, Being In Love, Love Is

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• To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!

  Cate Blanchett

  Years, Next Year, Next

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• I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

  David Walliams

  Political, Wish, Fans

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

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• I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.

  Robert Pattinson

  Writing, Years, Giving

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• I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Men, Good Woman, Businessman

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• No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

  John Jakes

  Should, Beyond Control, Factors

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Mar 16, 2015

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• I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  Carl Paladino

  Jobs, New York, Responsibility

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• She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

  Lincoln Kirstein

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• To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Giving Up, Gambling, Littles

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Sometimes there's luck,
  When there is you stock up on it
  and wait for the other times

  Charles Bukowski

  Waiting, Sometimes

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• One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Ingredients, Physics, Forget

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

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• Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Gratitude, Good Life, Grateful

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