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Luck’s always to blame.
It often amuses me to hear men impute all their misfortunes to fate, luck, or destiny, whilst their successes or good fortune they ascribe to their own sagacity, cleverness or penetration.
Chance is a word that does not make sense. Nothing happens without a cause.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
When God throws the dice are loaded.
Fortune’s a right whore: If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
If at first you do succeed, don’t take any more chances.
Watch out when you are getting all you want; fattening frogs ain’t in luck.
There is death in the poet.
There is no such thing as luck. It’s fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when the good time comes.
Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is that you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed, that all shallow observers will call you lucky.
I never knew an early rising, hard working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck the fools ever dreamed of.
All successful men have agreed in being causationists; they believed that things were not by luck, but by law that there was not a weak or cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things the cause and effect.
Emerson.
Ill-luck, is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of saying pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six O’clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character.
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease of vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstance. It was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of this deed, and by looking narrowly, you shall see there was no luck in the matter, but it was all a problem in arithmetic, or an experiment in chemistry.
“Luck” is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect
There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and more so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) French Poet, fabulist.
It often amuses me to hear men impute all their misfortunes to fate, luck, or destiny, whilst their successes or good fortune they ascribe to their own sagacity, cleverness or penetration.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.
Chance is a word that does not make sense. Nothing happens without a cause.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French author.
When God throws the dice are loaded.
Greek Proverb.
Fortune’s a right whore: If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
John Webster (1580-1625) English dramatist.
If at first you do succeed, don’t take any more chances.
Watch out when you are getting all you want; fattening frogs ain’t in luck.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) American author.
There is death in the poet.
Bible, Kings.
There is no such thing as luck. It’s fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when the good time comes.
Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is that you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed, that all shallow observers will call you lucky.
Bulwer.
I never knew an early rising, hard working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck the fools ever dreamed of.
Addison.
All successful men have agreed in being causationists; they believed that things were not by luck, but by law that there was not a weak or cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things the cause and effect.
Emerson.
Ill-luck, is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of saying pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.
T.T.Munger.
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six O’clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character.
Cobden.
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease of vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
N.P.Willis.
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?
Rothschild.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstance. It was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of this deed, and by looking narrowly, you shall see there was no luck in the matter, but it was all a problem in arithmetic, or an experiment in chemistry.
Emerson.
“Luck” is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Anon.
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect
Emerson.
There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and more so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
Rochefocauld.
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