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Archives for June 2013

The Meaning of Luck

June 9, 2013 by The Track Philosopher

While you listen to Sinatra sing “Luck Be a Lady”, enjoy the thoughts about that unknown fickle friend we all love to be around:

Financial success is hard work with a lot of luck! — The Track Philosopher

Luck never gives; it only lends. – Proverb

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him. – German Proverb

When God throws the dice are loaded. – Greek Proverb

No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck – German proverb

Luck never made a man wise. – Seneca

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish. – Ovid

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? – Stanislaw J. Lec

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. – George S. Clason

Good luck has its storms. – George Lucas

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? – Jean Costeau

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. – Yiddish Proverb

Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. – Arab Proverb

Diligence is the mother of good luck. – Benjamin Franklin

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. – Democritus

The champion makes his own luck. – Red Blaik

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. – Orson Welles

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. – E.B. White

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. – Ray Kroc

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck — who keeps right on going — is the man who is there when the good luck comes — and is ready to receive it. – Robert Collier

Everything in life is luck.- Donald Trump

Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit. – R. E. Shay

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. – Wilson Mizner

Fortune favours the bold. – Terence 190-159 BC

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. – William Shakespeare

Luck is not chance-It’s Toil-Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned. – Emily Dickinson

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world
The lucky person passes for a genius. – Euripedes

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn. -Anonymous

So the next time you’re at the track or the casino…

take lady luck with you.

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