Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

Everything in my life was luck.

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.