Luck

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  • The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
        Alexander Hamilton   Best?
  • If you ever get a chance to buy a baseball team, do so. It's very fun.
        Ted Turner   Best?
  • Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
        G. H. Hardy   Best?
  • Diligence is the mother of good luck.
        Proverb   Best?
  • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
        Henry Clay   Best?
  • A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
        Stephane Mallarme   Best?
  • Luck is the residue of design.
        Branch Rickey   Best?
  • Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
        Willa Foster   Best?
  • History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
        Donald Creighton   Best?
  • We make our fortunes and call them fate.
        Benjamin Disraeli   Best?
  • The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
        Jimmy Carter   Best?
  • To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
        Marie Leneru   Best?
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
        Charlize Theron   Best?
  • Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
        Babe Didrikson   Best?
  • Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.
        Frances E. Willard   Best?
  • That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
        Madonna   Best?
  • When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
        William Blake   Best?
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
        Chuck   Best?
  • Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
        Immanuel Kant   Best?
  • Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
        Joseph Conrad   Best?
  • To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
        Bette Davis   Best?
  • Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.
        J. S. Bryan   Best?
  • The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
        Vaclav Havel   Best?
  • The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
        Gordon Parks   Best?
  • It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
        Billy Joel   Best?
  • If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
        Mary Pickford   Best?
  • I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
        Anne Tyler   Best?
  • Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
        Rabbi Abraham Heschel   Best?
  • Meet the sunrise with confidence.
        Alonzo Newton Benn   Best?
  • Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.
        Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.   Best?
  • Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
        Calvin Coolidge   Best?
  • At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
        Jules Feiffer   Best?
  • Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand...
        Terry Goodkind   Best?
  • I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
        Martha Washington   Best?
  • Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
        Henry Miller   Best?
  • Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
        Thomas Gray   Best?
  • There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?

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