Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
Bill Brandt

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson

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

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
Felix Bloch

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
Laurence Housman

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
Victoria Abril

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.
John Engler

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Hector Berlioz

The luck will alter and the star will rise.
John Masefield

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Tony Robbins

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
Eddie Slovik

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