Lew Wallace Quotes

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

Good luck has its storms.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

People who are successful should never forget that it's 90 per cent luck. You've got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - 'Blankety Blank,' the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Good luck needs no explanation.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

I mean, God, I'm so lucky right now with the opportunities that I've had. There's nothing to worry about.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.

Nothing recedes like success.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Great good fortune coming suddenly and unexpectedly tends to make a people insolent

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.