If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to read more

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's read more

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.

You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.

So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.

So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.

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

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

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

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

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was read more

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected
works of Francis Bacon.

A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast read more

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.