Bad luck Quote by Thucydides

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

— Jean Cocteau

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

— Jean Cocteau

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

— Jean Cocteau

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

— Tig Notaro

Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we…

— Marc Randolph

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

— Colin Powell

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

— Jack Canfield

The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

— Richard Wiseman

I have been hugely lucky; but I think it's like when people say that luck is when preparation meets opportunity, and what you can…

— Monica Barbaro

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

— Nora Roberts

I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that…

— Marshall Brickman