Luck Quotes - Page 6

• Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

  Joseph Heller

  Good Luck, Simple, Destiny

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Good Luck, Long

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Good luck has its storms.

  George Lucas

  Good Luck, Storm

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• I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Optimistic, Cat

  "At age 79, Hefner keeps things real". "Live and Direct" with Rita Cosby, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

  Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

  Success, Business, Opportunity

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• I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life, Success, God

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• I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

  John Engler

  Positive, Work, Inspirational Life

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• I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Good Luck, Army

  "Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

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• People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Important, Use

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• What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

  Victor Cherbuliez

  Love, Motivational, Sacrifice

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• The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Ice Cream, Self

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• Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

  Gautama Buddha

  Good Luck, Best Of Luck, Luck And Skill

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• In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

  George Lucas

  Obi Wan Kenobi, Solo, Star Wars Movie

  George Lucas (2011). “A New Hope: Star Wars: Episode IV”, p.120, Del Rey

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• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Luck, Men

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• I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Athlete, Choices, Soul

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• The harder I work, the luckier I become.

  Terry Pratchett

  Positive, Work, Inspirational Life

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• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  Sam Elliott

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

  Barack Obama

  Happiness, Happy, Country

  President Obama's Inaugural Address, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.

  Ze Frank

  Love, Life, Sleep

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• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Men, Thinking, Opportunity

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

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

  John Lyman Chatfield

  Majority, Judgment, Good And Bad

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• Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

  Susan M Dodd

  Inspirational, Mindfulness, Attention

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