Max Lerner Quotes

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

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

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

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

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.

Three takes. You're either going to get it, or you're not going to get it. There's no use persisting; it just had to work that way.

I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.

We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it.

Life's not fair, I guess.

You can be the better team and still lose.

The better team sometimes loses.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.