People Always Call It Luck When You've Acted More Sensibly Than They Have

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GETTING LUCKY

We often attribute the things that happen to us or others to the handiwork of ‘mother luck’. She is supposed to dispense good fortune or misfortune as she pleases. Taken to the extreme, it would seem that all or much of what happens to us is as she has designed. So, why worry: mother luck will still do what she pleases.

There are those, however, who hold the other extreme view that much of what we become or experience is in our hands: you get as far as you choose. To such people, you can take charge of your life and indeed determine what you want and strive to get it. You conquer as far as you decide to go in full quest of.

In-between, the balance-of-forces view tends to recognize the input of both factors: you work you plan and pray that luck rallies to your camp. If both strike the right cord, it becomes an unstoppable force.

Okay, where do you stand? What is your view about luck and its impact in the affairs of men? How much does an individual’s station in life depend on how lucky he/she is? Can somebody have ‘hard luck’ as is often described? Are some people just lucky and getting good results because of that fact? Do you get lucky by working real hard and positioning yourself or by praying real hard and trusting? Or both?

Well, while you churn this over and possibly decide whether to give us the benefit of your views, there are various opinions already expressed on luck over the ages by men and women, some of whom were major achievers. Turn over and see what they’ve had to say. If you wish to share your views on luck, give us your comments by clicking here. If you’d like to forward this short document to a friend, click here to send.

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QUOTES on LUCK

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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

- Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

- Harry Golden (1902 - 1981)

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

- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

- John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

- Langston Coleman

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

- Wilson Mizner

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

- William Shakespeare

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

- R.E. Shay

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

- Mark Twain

Luck never gives; it only lends.

- Swedish Proverb

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

- Frank A. Clark

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.

- Author Unknown

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

- Larry King

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it.

- Author Unknown

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

- Arab Proverb

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

O, once in each man's life, at least,
Good luck knocks at his door;
And wit to seize the flitting guest
Need never hunger more.
But while the loitering idler waits
Good luck beside his fire,
The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,
And conquers its desire.

- Lewis J. Bates, Good Luck

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

- Hector Berlioz

Hope nothing from luck; and the probability is that you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed that all shallow observers will call you lucky.

- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on change. Labor on character.

- Richard Cobden

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: It was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of this deed, and, by looking narrowly, you shall see there was no luck in the matter, but it was all a problem in arithmetic, or an experiment in chemistry.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”

- Samuel Goldwyn

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

- Edward Gibbon

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it

- Robert Collier

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. - Og Mandino

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

- John Barrymore

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

- Lucille Ball

If one does not know to which port he is sailing, no wind is favorable.

- Seneca

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw, Author

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

- George Bernard Shaw

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck.

- Carl Zuckmeyer

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.

- Sydney Bremer

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

- Bob Richards

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

- Frank A. Clark

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

- Ray Kroc

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

- Dr. Armand Hammer

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

- Roy D. Chapin Jr.

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

- Ovid Author

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

- Douglas Jerrold

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Wrapping Up

Different views as you can see. Sometimes divergent. Oh, really? I don’t quite think so. There is a common thread. There is a consistent view on the need for positioning. On the need for initiative. On the need for ACTION on the individual’s part. On believing in the possibilities and going forth in pursuit, in faith. On the need for persistence, because the results often don’t come as quickly as we want. They agree on the need for remaining ever alert even as you push forward, because you need perception to know when opportunity is knocking. I also see a consensus on the need to be deeply focused on your pursuits to generate the laser-beam intuitive power to find answers and break barriers. I think I could read an underlying emphasis on the personal responsibility that heavily lies with the individual to pull his bootstraps and shape his future. Yes, I read an understanding, too, that we certainly don’t have absolute control but should push our limits and leave the rest to the Omnipotent Power.

The views weigh heavily against just waiting for things to happen. Or not pressing hard enough. Or long enough. Most disagree with not casting your hook and expecting to have fish. While nobody has ruled out miracles, they seem to say that the more likely one is that which you have prepared the ground for.

Anyway, they are all personal views. What is yours?

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