But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
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.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
There are not a lot of things that Andrew Luck can't do, but the thing I like about him is his work ethic. He's a workaholic, and that's what impresses me the most.
I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Good luck needs no explanation.
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.
