Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it
— Roald Amundsen
Genuine Bad Luck quotations
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.
I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.
There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification.
You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
Good music always defeats bad luck
When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.
They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent.
All else is either bad luck or weakness.
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa.
All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
You create your own luck by the way you play.
There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.
If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
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.
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.
As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.
The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
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.
The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."