Luck Quotes - Page 33

• So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

  Cynthia Hand

  Boys, Hair, Tree

  Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• Luck favors the bold.  Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness.  Act boldly at critical moments.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Leadership, Secret

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• Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

  Grant Cardone

  Confused, Successful, People

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Jun 28, 2016

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• I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Persistence, Wish, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

  John le Carre

  Here And There, Forget, Easy

  The Looking-Glass War (1965). It's not so easy to forget that le Carre's intelligence is, well, fiction.

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
  That old perplexity an empty purse,
  Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

  William Butler Yeats

  Work, Frustration, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Successful, Blow

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Politics, Chance, Affair

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• [The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Thinking, Arrogance

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• When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", 1972.

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• You must be a poet,
  a lady of evil luck
  desiring to be what you are not,
  longing to be
  what you can only visit.

  Anne Sexton

  Evil, Poetry, Desire

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Powerful, Attitude

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

  William Saroyan

  Cancer, Believe, Cutting

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I need some extra luck.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, Love Is, Smell

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• I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Determination, Time, Jobs

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• I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

  John Prine

  Country, Car, Comedy

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• As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

  Jacques Roumain

  Hard Times, Men, Broken

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• I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Actors, Bigs

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Favors, Grind

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• When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

  Richard Yates

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.184, Random House

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• Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

  Carl Icahn

  Judging Yourself, Skills, Judging Others

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• ... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Thousand, Succession

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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