Quotes tagged ‘Luck’

(65 total)

“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”

“The marvelous thing about England is her luck.”

— Cecil Rhodes, paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

“I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me....Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen….I could swear they were keeping me…”

— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org

“If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.”

— Tiger Woods, businessinsider.com

“You just throw the dice and you get lucky. And I surround myself with smart folks—usually young smart folks. It's good to be thought of in a good light, to have a little bit of clout, but you can't carry the ball all by yourself. You need a team.”

— Danny DeVito, theguardian.com

“Fate. Destiny. Luck. The prisons of man. People pass the time, enjoying the choices life provides—coffee or tea, right or left. As if it matters. We are all just spinning on the wheel. There is but one way to keep off the wheel. It's not youth. It's not beauty or true love. I know how to stay off th…”

— John J. Gray, Elsa Mars, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”

— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu

“Getting married and having a bad divorce is just like breaking your leg. The same leg, in the same place. I'm lucky I don't walk with a cane.”

— George Peppard, articles.latimes.com

“The way I see it, there are two different kinds of death. If you're lucky, you live a long life and one day your body stops working and it's over. But if you're not lucky, you die a little bit until you realize it's too late. I know some of you might think there was more I could have done or should…”

— Elizabeth Benjamin, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com

“Enjoy your 2018 and remember: Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“You are too beautiful for one man alone For one lucky fool to be with When there are other men With eyes of their own to see with”

— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com

“Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.”

— Edmund Hillary, telegraph.co.uk

“I play my cards as best I can, but I lose my luck when you're not here. My darling heart, won't you please give in? I may be strong, but I want you back again.”

— Dave Matthews, youtube.com

“There are people that somehow become stars whether the world loves them or not.”

— Dave Grohl, spin.com

“Your time will come. You will face the same evil, and you will defeat it.”

— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com

“Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.”

— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com

“And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.”

— Hafiz, amazon.com

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

— Dalai Lama XIV, goodreads.com

“To me at least, Hank, it's not about deserving anything, because you are not your luck. No matter your circumstances, you are valuable and rare and worthy of love.”

— John Green, youtube.com

“I would argue that in addition to not deserving all of the wonderful things that happen in life, we don't deserve all of the terrible things.”

— John Green, youtube.com