Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Shilton

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

Peter Lynch

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Peter Lynch

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

Mother Teresa

Life is luck, make it.

Victor Hugo

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

Robert Fripp

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

Rick Majerus

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Rick Mercer

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

Sarah Dessen

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

Sarah Dessen

When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

Rod Stewart

I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.

Robert Greene

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

Rob Lowe

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

Richard Schickel

Luck always favors the comely.

Robert Doisneau

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Trey Anastasio

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Uma Thurman

I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

Richard Dawkins

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Roelof Botha

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Robin Williams

Be prepared for luck.

Willa Cather

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Virginia Woolf

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

Samuel Smiles

Luck whines; labor whistles.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

Samuel Hoffenstein

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

Ryan Phillippe

It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.

Wendy Hiller

I was unbelievably lucky.

W. S. Gilbert

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

Thomas Harris

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Victoria Wood

I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

Horace

Luck cannot change birth.

Jerry Della Femina

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

Jeremy Grantham

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.