Rather Be Lucky Than Good Quotes

#1. I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Mark Martin

#2. Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

Frankie Valli

#3. I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

Kid Rock

#4. Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.

Jennifer Paynter

#5. I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

Tom Riley

#6. I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

Brian Van Holt

#7. The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.

Justin Guarini

#8. I don't see many people with longevity anymore. Everything was harder when I started, and you had to take acting lessons, do theater parts, work on connections and then get lucky. The technology is good, but it's also a hindrance for longevity.

Dustin Diamond

#9. I really couldn't see what the Socs would have to sweat about - good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs - Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky.
I know better now.

S.E. Hinton

#10. When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

Shah Rukh Khan

#11. Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

Chris Hardwick

#12. You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think 'Well gee, let's not mess this up.' But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Jerry Seinfeld

#13. If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately,

Chetan Bhagat

#14. The (Complete) Formula for Getting Lucky: Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck

Darren Hardy

#15. I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.

Mike Shinoda

#16. I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

John Mulaney

#17. I'd rather be good than lucky.

Brian Bosworth

#18. If you believe in "luck", always let it be good luck.
Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless".
Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

Donald L. Hicks

#19. I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.

Julie Klausner

#20. In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That

Winston Graham

#21. I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

Thomas Sadoski

#22. I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

Kate Walsh

#23. We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

Peter Hook

#24. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.

Audrey Hepburn

#25. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Alan Blinder

#26. I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

Rachael Taylor

#27. I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

Tony Curran

#28. My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

Jewel

#29. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.

Margaret Cho

#30. Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.

Stephen King

#31. Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.

David Ogilvy

#32. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.

Donnie Fritts

#33. Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I'm not that kind of girl."

"Lucky for me," Park said.

Rainbow Rowell

#34. All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Marianne Faithfull

#35. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

#36. I used to build things, maintain them and what-not. Sometimes, we'd take things apart completely just to get a good look at the thing on the inside. Then, put it all back together ... Now, I'm lucky if I can build a complete sentence.

Abby Slovin