Luck And Skill Quotes:

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Good Luck, Best Of Luck, Luck And Skill, Saying Good Luck

You make your Own luck.

- Neale Donald Walsch

source: Neale Donald Walsch (2008). “Happier Than God”, p.98, Jaico Publishing House

topic: Good Luck, Lucky Day, Luck And Skill, Lucky You, So Lucky

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Business, Good Luck, Skills, Luck And Skill

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

- Patrick MacGill

source: MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

topic: Skills, Soldier, Luck, Luck And Skill

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong, Strong Man, I Am Strong

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Graduation, Opportunity, Golden, Luck And Skill, Best Opportunity

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Inspirational, Luck, Want, Luck And Skill, Written Goals

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Money, Luck And Skill, Best Opportunity

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

- Bret Harte

topic: Luck, Sure Thing, Slot Machines, Luck And Skill, Best Of Luck

I was in the right place at the right time.

- Mel Allen

topic: Right Time, Peaceful Warrior, Incidence, Scholes, Intellectual Pride

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

- Calvin Harris

source: "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

topic: Right Time, Peaceful Warrior, Incidence, Scholes, Intellectual Pride

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

- Orson Welles

topic: Good Luck, Gambling, People, Luck And Skill, Unlucky

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

- Richie Benaud

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Winning, Toss, Luck And Skill, Cricket Funny

Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

- Magnus

topic: Skills, Lovely, Luck, Luck And Skill

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

- Bill Gates

topic: Luck And Skill

He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

topic: Skills, Broken, Lovely, Magnus Bane, Clockwork Prince

Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.

- Randall Jarrell

topic: Book, Taken, Rome, Luck And Skill, Printed Books

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

- Paul Ormerod

source: "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

topic: Skills, Lunch, Luck, Free Lunch, Luck And Skill

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Love Again, Luck And Skill, Boxing Matches, Words You Speak