Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Our 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?

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I 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.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Fortune, 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.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

It’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.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

What 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?

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

The 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.

Peace begins with a smile.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

They 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.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Few people realize that luck is created.

One 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.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I 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.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.