Browsing Quotes With Tag: luck (17)
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Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.
Speaker: Jane EspensonPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Luck is statistics taken personally
Speaker: Penn JelletePosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
She’s right of course. It’s not fair. Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Luck never made a man wise.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
Speaker: Jean CocteauPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeacherPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'Fickle Fate’ is a vicious goddess who brings no permanent good to anyone. On the contrary, she brings ruin to almost every man upon whom she showers unearned gold. She makes wanton spenders, who soon dissipate all they receive and are left beset by overwhelming appetites and desires they have not the ability to gratify.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and God gives abundantly to industry. So plow deep while the sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“In every venture the bold man comes off best” Odysseus
Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What were the chances, eh? One in a million? One in ten million? I don’t know. But of course even one in ten million means that there are a lot of women like me in the world. That’s not what you think of, when you think of one in ten million. You don’t think, That’s a lot of people.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting,” she murmured.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s a kind of luck that’s not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that’s not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear?
Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown.
Best live as best we may, from day to day.” JocastaSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not Fortune’s business to make a state sound; that is a task for knowledge and deliberate choice.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!