Quotes by Authors - Page 140

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep the trains you have never failed to catch.
Max O'Relling
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.
Louise Erdrich
You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.
Jeanne Detourbey
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee
When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
Rosellen Brown
People make their own luck.
David Liederman
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling of fighting with their star or against it and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
E.M. Forster
I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.
Anaïs Nin
I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.
Louisa May Alcott
I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.
Jerry Delia Femina
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes
The worst cynicism a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.
Phyllis Bottome
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.
Lady Murasaki
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!
Anonymous
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.
Anonymous
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Anonymous
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.
John Jakes
Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
Mark Twain
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.
James Fixx
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Arthur Hailey
I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.
Mike Wallace
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
William Thackeray
Some pray to marry the man they love My prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above That I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes
The hours I spent with thee dear heart Are as a string of pearls to me I could them over every one apart My rosary my rosary.
Robert Cameron Rogers
Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
Rudyard Kipling
There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear.
Anonymous
But one always returns to one's first loves.
Etienne
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold
How wise are they that are but fools in love!
Joshua Cooke
There's no love lost between us.
Miguel de Cervantes
Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And lives in our alley.
Henry Carey
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
Antoine Bret
Our first and last love is - self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.
Marguerite Blessington
Man loves little and often woman much and rarely.
Anonymous
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
Israel Zangwill
In the act of loving someone you arm them against you.
Anonymous
A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow
Respect is love in plain clothes.
Frankie Byrne
A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
James Thurber
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger fear and criticism.
Harold H. Bloomfield
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love and to be hurt often and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
J. E. Buckrose
There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.
Marcel Proust
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything every disappointment every failure and every betrayal which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Graham Greene
The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas More
Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.
Thomas Hardy