Luck Quotes
- Page 10Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
Alison Moyet
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Titus Livius
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl Sandburg
You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.
Hope Davis
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
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Whoopi Goldberg
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
V. S. Naipaul
Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
Malcolm Wilson