Showing posts with label luck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luck. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Post #3247

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley.
—Robert Burns

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Sunday, August 21, 2022

Post #3138

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
—Mark Twain

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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Post #2677

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
—Plautus

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Post #2544

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
—Mayer Rothschild

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Post #1644

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

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Post #1369

A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of.
—Joseph Addison

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Post #1199

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than it is to keep it.
—Publilius Syrus


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Monday, November 05, 2012

Post #1103

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.
—Carl Zuckmayer

Friday, August 17, 2012

Post #1036

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
—Publilius Syrus


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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Post #1014

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.
—Marquis de Racan

Friday, February 10, 2012

Post #858

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

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Post #742

When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
—Armand Hammer

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Sunday, July 03, 2011

Post #638

Chance favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur

Friday, June 24, 2011

Post #629

Motivation triggers luck.
—Mike Wallace

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Post #494

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Post #170

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

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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