Luck Quotes

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.

Good night, and good luck.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

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

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

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.

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.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.

Good luck needs no explanation.