Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
Thich Nhat HanhI’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Audrey HepburnGenerous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.
Robert KiyosakiPeace begins with a smile.
Mother TeresaSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat HanhRichard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.
Anthony HopkinsThe fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis BaconIf we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Thich Nhat HanhCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.
Marilyn MonroeI’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Brian EnoGod not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen HawkingNo man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas CarlyleOne thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.
Hunter S. ThompsonFirst, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
Queen Elizabeth IIWhy am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.
Mr. TFor some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
Dolly PartonAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleFreedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert CamusI don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
Christopher HitchensThe world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
Paul AusterTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Alexander PopeI don’t think I’m an unlucky person.
Jurgen KloppDiligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William ShakespeareOur generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret AtwoodThe usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel JohnsonI got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven WrightHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis BaconI was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.
Edmund HillaryThe bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William ShakespeareI say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
Denzel WashingtonHow lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
Mark TwainShallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThey might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily DickinsonWhat prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James MadisonYou want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.
Jerry SeinfeldFortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius CaesarNothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMost of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Jackie ChanMind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William ShakespeareModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliI’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
George BestFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest HemingwayThe way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis BaconTo win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
Lou HoltzIdeas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon HillIt’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.
Ayrton SennaThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthurLuck marches with those who give their very best.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Hunter S. ThompsonOne knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.
David ByrneThere’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
Jeff BezosThe history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. EisenhowerI think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
Katharine HepburnNothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David ThoreauLuck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.
Steven Wright