Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de La Fontaine

In short, luck's always to blame.

Jeffrey Gitomer

How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.

James Cameron

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

Christopher Lambert

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

Christopher Jones

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

Franz Beckenbauer

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

Jeff Lindsay

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

Jeanette Winterson

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

Jeannette Walls

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Jeannette Walls

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

Jennifer Garner

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Jeff Bridges

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

George Sand

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

George Saunders

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

Elvis Costello

I wish you luck with a capital F.

Jason Mraz

Lucky to have been where I have been

Evelyn Waugh

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Eugene H. Peterson

Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.

Ernest Hemingway

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Groucho Marx

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

Home Run Baker

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

Hugh Bonneville

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

Howard Gardner

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

Freeman Dyson

Everything in my life was luck.

Freeman Dyson

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

Franz Kafka

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.

Chris O'Dowd

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

Chris Lilley

I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.

Fabrice Muamba

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary,