Luck Quotes
622 quotes
"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."
"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."
"I realize all guys have thorns. But I am a rose, and she chose a cactus over me. I wish her luck with her dry, desert-like existence with him."
"I used to think how lucky she was to have me, but now I realize that’s backwards. A spirit of gratitude yields patience, love, and forgiveness."
"I went to a potluck. I brought my own pot—and luck. The pot was empty, just like my promise to bring food the next time."
"Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved."
"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck"
"Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb."
"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
"Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades."
"Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck."
"The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"
"Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection?"
"In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes."
"This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad."
"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."
"Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story."
"Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant."
"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."
"Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection."
"There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better."
"The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come."
"When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky."
"Wisdom and bad luck - do not contradict each other."
"The onlucky one encounters even a small toothpick."
"Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people."
"If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own."
"For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather."
"It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world."
"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."
"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"
"True friends don't come with conditions."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."
"Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Without struggle, success has no value."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"There is no such thing as loving a child too much."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
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