Luck Quotes - Page 37

• ...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Heart, Good Luck, Hinges

  David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Country, Leaving, Mind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Unique, Mixtures, Facts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

  Jenna Fischer

  Stupid, Thinking, Complaining

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• What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

  Peter Diamandis

  Giving Up, Persistence, Grit

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• Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

  Rohit Shetty

  Karma, Winning, Over You

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• The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Men, Preparation, He Man

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• At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.

  Sergio Troncoso

  Strong, Nice, Good Luck

  Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press

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• No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Good Life, Smart, Responsibility

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• As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty dollar was the way to be happy...and I woke up one morning and I had three retail establishments and a full-blown construction company with partners making great money and I was miserable.

  Drew Waters

  Morning, Hands, Way

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Names, Mind, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “Interesting Times: Adapted for the Stage by Stephen Briggs”, p.23, A&C Black

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• If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

  Mikhail Tal

  Waiting, Boring, Turns

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• I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

  Mary Harron

  Stars, Good Luck, Long

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, "I wish I could do that." Like women who endure hardships and turn their luck around and bring up children on their own and start a business. Or a social worker who leaves his country, his comfort, his friends, and goes far away to help people he doesn't know. I want to evolve into that, ultimately. I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Country, Children, Sacrifice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

  Paul Theroux

  Life Lesson, Book, Good Luck

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Hands, Helping

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.183, Dial Press

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• You make your own luck. Some people have bad
  luck all their lives.

  Casey Stengel

  People, Bad Luck

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• If your intelligence and your luck are on your side, you don't need angels!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Angel, Your Side, Needs

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• Luck is a strong horse; it can carry man to very distant places!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Horse, Men

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• A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Play, Elements

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Whatever is hidden from full view in this feeble light has to be guessed at by talent, or simply left to chance. So once again for the lack of objective knowledge, one has to trust to talent or to luck.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Twilight, Fog

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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• Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

  A. J. McLean

  Good Luck, Skulls, People

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• Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.

  Howard A. Tullman

  Running, Real, Winning

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• A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

  Paul Simon

  Sex, Blessed, Acting

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