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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.
— Brian Tracy
Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.
— Herman Melville
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
— Cormac McCarthy
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
— DH Lawrence
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
— Seneca
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
— Joseph Heller
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
— Euripides
I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.
— Bill Bailey
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
— Ernest Hemingway
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.
— Steven Pressfield