Pastoral Resources

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.