I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
I've always been lucky enough to have made the right decisions, if I can say that. I've always felt that I've had good fortune in that way.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
I just wake up and I thank God every day, because I easily could've been in jail or six feet under.
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.
How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.
Good luck reaches farther than long arms.
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.
