Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Faldo

You have to get lucky. Whether that's a good captain's pick, or two rookies combining for five points, if you get that, those are points you really aren't expecting.

Nora Roberts

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

Nora Roberts

We all look. The lucky find.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Luck is the grand equalizer.

Monica Seles

I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.

Monica Potter

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

Johnny Knoxville

I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.

John Wooden

No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

Mary Stewart

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

Pat Riley

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

Plautus

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

Lee Child

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Mark Martin

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Mads Mikkelsen

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

Mason Cooley

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

Mason Cooley

My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.

Mason Cooley

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

Michael Frayn

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.

Michael J. Fox

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

Terry Pratchett

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Kevin Sorbo

I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.

Kevin Systrom

Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?

Michael Lewis

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

Melissa Rosenberg

I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

Ed Belfour

I just tried to stay back and stay patient. I got lucky and it worked out.

Delphine Arnault

I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.

I'm lucky I don't have to make that decision.

Wayne Rogers

I'm very lucky when it comes to weather.

Peter Crouch

The first one took a big slice of luck, obviously, but I'm really pleased.

Neale Donald Walsch

You can live a charmed life by causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the source of 'charm' -- of charming moments and experiences -- in the life of another. Be everyone else's Lucky Charm! Make all who you touch today feel 'lucky' that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watch things change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person.

Mike Leigh

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Margaret Walker

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.