You don't just luck into thing...

You don't just luck into things ... you build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

~Barbara Bush~

You are in the driver's seat o...

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time.

~Jinger Heath~

Work and acquire, and thou has...

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Woe to him who would ascribe s...

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

~Johann von Goethe~

When you work seven days a wee...

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

~Armand Hammer~

When it comes time to do your ...

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~

What is luck? It is not only c...

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

~Natasha Josefowitz~

We must master our good fortun...

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

~Publilius Syrus~

We create our fate every day ....

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

~Henry Miller~

To wait for someone else, or t...

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension.

~Kathleen Tierney Andrus~

To believe in luck ... is skep...

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Throw a lucky man into the sea...

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

~Arab proverb~

Though men pride themselves on...

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the result of any great design, but of chance.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld~

Those who trust to chance must...

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

~Calvin Coolidge~

Those who have succeeded at an...

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

~Larry King~

This world is run with far too...

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~

They who await no gifts from c...

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

~Matthew Arnold~

There is no such thing as maki...

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.

~Martina Arroyo~

There is death in the pot. [2 ...

There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]

~Bible~

There is a spirit and a need a...

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~