Top 100 Not Luck Quotes
#1. It's not luck, Waverly. I mean yeah, to find someone who really gets you, maybe that's luck, but if you treat people like they matter, they remember it.
Brenna Yovanoff
#2. Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.
S.D. Crockett
#3. Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work ... hard work of course!
Israelmore Ayivor
#4. Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
David J. Schwartz
#5. My skills are unique. Forged over a lifetime of dedication and hard work. It is not talent. It is not luck. It is nothing less than perseverance that makes me the best at what I do. For
A. Zavarelli
#6. It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.
Ruskin Bond
#7. THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#8. -we wish you-"
"-a tale-"
"-worth telling."
"Not luck?" asked Vikram.
The gate heaved with wet laughter.
"-what good is-"
"-such a thing.
Roshani Chokshi
#9. The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.
Bono
#10. Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.
Anuj
#11. Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone
Jack D. Schwager
#12. Health is not luck.
We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.
Joel Fuhrman
#13. I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
Howard Schultz
#14. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#15. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.
Jim Corbett
#16. luck is not entirely about chance; it's about the human ability to spot opportunities and make the most out of them.
Ashwin Sanghi
#17. Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.
Robert Hawkins
#18. I think I must be one of those who are born to be in luck, for one does not often meet with people whom one feels he can love from the first sight of their faces
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. You can't lose the game. You can't go wrong. It's not part of the plan. There is no way not to get where you are going. There's no way to miss your destination. If God is your target, you're in luck, because God is so big, you can't miss.
Neale Donald Walsch
#20. The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
Eddie Slovik
#21. I don't think the universe has any grand plan for us. It comes down to the decisions we make, and maybe a little luck. We're not damaged, we're just human.
S.W. Lauden
#22. Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!
Todd Rundgren
#23. Nobody knows anything ... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
William Goldman
#25. I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
Alan Ball
#26. He'd been dazzled by the luck; she smiled, knowing that luck was not real. The
Lauren Groff
#27. Luck is not a word the Society encourages. And it's not something we have much of out here.
Ally Condie
#28. Our reservation is not real estate, luck fades when sold. Attraction has no staying power, no weight, no heart.
Louise Erdrich
#29. If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
Scott Adams
#30. Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
Joseph Heller
#32. Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.
Jack Canfield
#33. Lord, have mercy! Crazy cowboys who bought a bad luck ranch were definitely not supposed to be that sexy.
Carolyn Brown
#34. In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
Albert Camus
#35. Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we might be happy. I am sure happiness is not too far away
Russell Edson
#36. Sam just told me to tell you that the most important thing
is to not do what you did to them on the episode."
"That won't happen," I replied, "because I doubt they'll
leave the keys in the car again. Wish me luck.
Maggie Stiefvater
#37. That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.
Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.
Joss Whedon
#38. I must remind you, my luck was not just shitty luck. It was super shitty luck. "It
Kristen Ashley
#39. Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star ... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
Albert Camus
#40. the strong feeling beginning to be manifested to Wade was not the fun of matching wits and luck with his antagonists, nor a desire to accumulate money--for his recklessness disproved that--but the liberation of the gambling passion.
Zane Grey
#41. If a player wants to out himself, then I say good luck. But I believe the world of AFL footy is not ready for it. To come out is unnecessary for a lot of reasons. It would be international news and could break the fabric of a club
Jason Akermanis
#42. I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.
Joan Rivers
#43. What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
#44. If I had married, there is much I would not have learned of myself. This has been hard and painful and horrible. But I've learned that I'm stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.
Courtney Milan
#45. He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.
Cormac McCarthy
#46. People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck ... The world is run by those who show up ... not those who wait to be asked.
Steve Blank
#47. The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."
John Dewey
#48. In a world that praises the luck (but not the hustle) and envies the dream (but not the chase), be the outlier. Have
Gloria Atanmo
#49. The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
Harrison Ford
#50. Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
Epictetus
#51. 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
#52. I'm sorry," muttered Locke. "I was so keen to come to Tal fucking Verrar." "It's not your fault. We were both eager to hop in bed with the wench; it's just shit luck she turned out to have the clap.
Scott Lynch
#53. By that thinking, surely she was not bad Luck, but Good, undefined.
J.D. Lakey
#54. Landing on his feet was nothing new to Caleb. He did not believe in luck, he believed in the law of nature. Animals did not rely on luck. They lived and died by their instincts.
Arlene Hunt
#55. You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
Ivanka Trump
#56. When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
Mark Twain
#57. Complaining about your luck is not allowed. Rokutarou, you're not the only one that matters but they leave that aside and do their best.If you start comparing misfortunes, it would never end. What's the meaning in that? Everyone knows you had a hard time.
Chica Umino
#58. The "why not" of youth, the secret desire to know his luck, to try his strength all on his own without the support of another, eventually won through.
Ivan Turgenev
#59. No combination of Time and Luck could have produced a camera that excellent, not even if the quantity of time had been 1,000,000,000,000 years! How is that for an unsolved mystery?
Kurt Vonnegut
#60. If luck has not yet knocked your gate, change the gate
Qaiser Abbas
#61. One of these days, your luck won't hold, his father's voice reminded him.
Maybe, he thought back to it, but not today.
Peter V. Brett
#62. And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.
Scarlett Thomas
#63. It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.
Ken Robinson
#64. Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt
John Taliaferro
#65. To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#66. Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Shula
#67. A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
Sophocles
#68. Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.
C.S. Lewis
#69. That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
Laurence Housman
#70. As a lifetime proposition, happiness is a discipline, no doubt; but for moments at a time, it's a piece of luck. A piece of luck and a clue: a hint, not just of what might be, but of what already exists, in the heart of a man's heart ...
John Burnside
#71. Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
Cinda Williams Chima
#72. Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.
Jonah Berger
#73. May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours
Hasil Paudyal
#74. The two chief teachings of this religion are these," said Rumfoord: "Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God. "Why
Kurt Vonnegut
#75. Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.
Joan Lowery Nixon
#76. Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.
Larry Elder
#77. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well ...
William Shakespeare
#79. 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
#80. You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.
Twyla Tharp
#81. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.
Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.
Freedom of choice is predetermined.
Don't believe anything you read!
L. Anthony
#82. Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#83. It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.
Johnny Depp
#84. Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Paul Krugman
#85. You are not with your luck but he is with you forever and your life proves it.
Rajesh Walecha
#86. I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
Howard Gardner
#87. I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me.
Amy Tan
#88. Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.
Indro Montanelli
#89. There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#90. Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but - this was the dirty secret - you needed luck.
Allegra Goodman
#91. Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.
David Peace
#92. I get hit on by the hottest girls ever. Oh my god, if I was a lesbian, I would be so in luck. But it's just not my thing. I've always batted for the boys' team.
Kelly Clarkson
#93. I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren't willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.
Dan Pearce
#94. I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics.
Orhan Pamuk
#95. Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.
David Galula
#96. It must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.
John Calvin
#97. Life is not a path of coincidence, happenstance, and luck, but rather an unexplainable, meticulously charted course for one to touch the lives of others and make a difference in the world. BARBARA DILLINHAM
Natasha Turner
#98. I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.
Jane Seymour
#99. His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.
Anthony Powell
#100. There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.
Rick Warren
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