David Selby:
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
E. B. White:
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
Edward Gibbon:
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon:
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon:
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
George Santayana:
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Jean Cocteau:
Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?
John Barrymore:
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Lennon: L
ife is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Lucille Ball:
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Seneca:
If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Thomas Jefferson:
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson (attributed):
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. |
