Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jose Saramago

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Kevin Smith

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

Joel Chandler Harris

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Joe Zawinul

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

Epictetus

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Emerson Fittipaldi

I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.

The discarded soul-brides suffer in terrible agony; they have no luck at all.

Henry James

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

John Krasinski

I love this script [The Hollars] because I'm lucky enough to come from a really tightknit family.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Kurt Busch

It's better sometimes to be lucky than good.

Kurt Fuller

I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

Oscar de la Renta

I’m a happy fellow. I feel very privileged, lucky, that I have had a wonderful life. And that I have been always allowed to do what I love,

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.

Harvey Fierstein

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

Joe Gold

I've been very lucky in my life.

Eric Heiden

You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.

Emma Watson

I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky.

John Jakes

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Peter Crouch

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

Shane Filan

When I finished Westlife, we had - Louie Walsh is still managing me - I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.

John Frusciante

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

John Mulaney

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

John Dewey

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."