In the long run luck is given only to the efficient. — Helmuth James Graf von Moltke Copy Share Image
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Every waking second is a chance to look past who you think you are right through to who you truly are.” — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are happening all around us, all the time, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“That's sheer luck too: luck of the draw of birth: century, continent, nation, section, sex, color, socioeconomic sector.” — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
So, we wait until tomorrow night, and when you say the word, I cross over and haul you both out. Right? That's… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays… — W. G. Grace Copy Share Image
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.” — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
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