Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. Erica Jong

What luck for rulers that men do not think. Adolf Hitler

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. James Baldwin

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Butler Leacock

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Benjamin Franklin

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. Bret Harte

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit. The Talmud

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. Don Schula

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. Garrison Keillor

Good luck beats early rising. Irish Proverb

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit. The Talmud

I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed. Srully Blotnick

Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well. Office Space

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. James Arthur Baldwin

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. Samuel Smiles

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