1.
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
Abdul Kalam
Don't become complacent after your initial success as failure in subsequent attempts may lead to cynicism about the authenticity of your earlier victory.
2.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
Alexander Fleming
Unanticipated outcomes can be stumbled upon.
4.
Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it
Roald Amundsen
Success awaits the organized, fortune we call it. Failure is certain for those who have not prepared adequately - misfortune we call it.
5.
Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.
Nipsey Hussle
Fate is simply being ready always, so when the opportunity arises you are equipped.
6.
If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
Mikhail Tal
If you rely on chance to bring fortune, life becomes incredibly dull.
7.
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
Celine Dion
Life throws obstacles at you that are beyond your control, yet you still have the decision of how you will endure these hardships.
8.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
9.
If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
Morgan Freeman
10.
When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
11.
when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans
Tom Waits
13.
We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.
Primo Levi
14.
Luck is when skill meets opportunity.
Vinnie Paz
16.
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston
17.
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
Niels Bohr
18.
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
George Lucas
19.
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy
Jacob Zuma
20.
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
Richard Bach
21.
Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.
Edmund Hillary
22.
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
Richard Bach
23.
Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.
Rick Riordan
25.
Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.
Chester W. Nimitz
26.
I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.
Dylan O'Brien
27.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
28.
A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.
Rachel Maddow
29.
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
Edward Dahlberg
30.
The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side
Roger Federer
31.
I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
Nelly
32.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
Juvenal
33.
There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
Gerald R. Ford
34.
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
Arthur Golden
36.
I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.
Robert McNamara
37.
I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
38.
I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.
Tom Platz
39.
It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.
Ruskin Bond
41.
Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
James Cameron
42.
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
43.
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.
Norman Maclean
44.
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
Slavoj Žižek
46.
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.
Daniel Quinn
47.
In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.
Wayne Dyer
48.
Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
Rene Char
49.
To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!
Jimmy Doolittle
50.
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean