quotes about Good Luck
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Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.
-- Al SiebertSource : "The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks". Book by Al Siebert, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2005.
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Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
-- Alexander Smith -
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
-- Alice Hoffman -
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It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
-- Alison Moyet -
Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.
-- Anita Shreve -
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
-- Anna SewellSource : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.133, Xist Publishing
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
-- Anne Tyler -
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
-- Babe Ruth -
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
-- Barbara SherSource : Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.20, Dell
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
-- Bear Grylls -
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
-- Boethius -
Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
-- Branch Rickey -
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
-- Brandon Mull -
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People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.
-- Brian JohnsonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.
-- Bruce Bochy -
Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.
-- Cathy CassidySource : Cathy Cassidy (2008). “Lucky Star”, p.150, Penguin UK
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Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck-you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
-- Chalene JohnsonSource : Chalene Johnson (2017). “PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.368, Rodale
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I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.
-- Chelsea Handler -
There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
-- Christine Pelosi -
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Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.
-- CM PunkSource : Before a match at Extreme Championship Wrestling, September 04, 2007.
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He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.
-- Colin Montgomerie -
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I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
-- Conrad Black -
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
-- Cormac McCarthySource : Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage
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One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."
-- Dave Hunt -
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When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
-- Democritus -
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I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
-- Ed Bradley -
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
-- Edie Brickell -
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September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.
-- Eleanor PerenyiSource : Eleanor Perenyi (2016). “More Was Lost: A Memoir”, p.29, New York Review of Books
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Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!
-- Elizabeth Warren -
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
-- Emily Dickinson -
I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.
-- Emraan Hashmi -
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
-- Eric Hoffer -
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
-- Eubie Blake -
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
-- Faith Baldwin -
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
-- Frank A. Clark -
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And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.
-- Frank BormanSource : Frank Borman, Robert J. Serling (1988). “Countdown: an autobiography”, Silver Arrow
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
-- Frederick Douglass -
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
-- Garrison Keillor -
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Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.
-- Gene Krupa -
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
-- George Eliot -
Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.
-- George Eliot -
When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!
-- George Lopez -
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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.
-- George Polya -
...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
-- George S. ClasonSource : George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.48, Lulu.com
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Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
-- George SandersSource : "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.
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To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
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I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
-- Grace Jones -
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
-- Harper Lee -
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
-- Harper Lee -
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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
-- Hector Berlioz -
There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.
-- Henry Sy -
You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.
-- Hope DavisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating ***** they run against.
-- Irvine Welsh -
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
-- J. Christopher HeroldSource : J. Christopher Herold (2016). “Bonaparte In Egypt [Illustrated Edition]”, p.559, Pickle Partners Publishing
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Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.
-- Jackie StewartSource : "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.
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Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.
-- Jacob GrimmSource : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2009). “Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm”, p.27, The Floating Press
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Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?
-- Jacob GrimmSource : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
-- James A. GarfieldSource : "President Garfield and Education: Hiram College Memorial". Book by Burke Aaron Hinsdale, 1882.
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Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.
-- James MacArthur -
This is your life. If you are not who you want to be, change it! It won’t be easy and it may take some time, but surround yourself with people who love and support you and go for it! No regrets! Only you dwell on your failures. Good luck and remember the inner strength you’ll achieve from adopting a healthy lifestyle far supersedes anything physical.
-- Jamie Eason -
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
-- Janis Ian -
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If a player wants to out himself, then I say good luck. But I believe the world of AFL footy is not ready for it. To come out is unnecessary for a lot of reasons. It would be international news and could break the fabric of a club
-- Jason Akermanis -
I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
-- Jason Aldean -
Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.
-- Jenny Downham -
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
-- Jerry Reed -
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If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.
-- Joan Lowery Nixon -
I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!
-- John C. Reilly -
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I dont rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.
-- John Gokongwei -
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
-- John L. Bates -
...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.
-- John Muir -
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
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And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.
-- Jonathan StroudSource : Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
-- Joseph Heller -
That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.
-- Joss Whedon -
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Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.
-- Kema Chikwe -
We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.
-- Kema Chikwe -
Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big, we are chanting to Nigerians: all we are saying, give us Goodluck.
-- Kema Chikwe -
I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.
-- Ken Kutaragi -