"We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness."
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"Okay, men,” he said. “And women,” said Chaser Angelina Johnson. “And women,” Wood agreed. “This is it.” “The big one,” said Fred Weasley. “The one we’ve all been waiting for,” said George. “We know Oliver’s speech by heart,” Fred told Harry, “we were on the team last year.” “Shut up, you two,” said Wood. “This is the best team Gryffindor’s had in years. We’re going to win. I know it.” He glared at them all as if to say, “Or else.” “Right. It’s time. Good luck, all of you."
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
"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."
"God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often"
"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."
"So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom."
"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
"...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers."
"People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again."
"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."
"Luck is believing you're lucky."
"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."
"I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value."
"Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness."
"Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck."
"Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives."
"Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck."
"Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck."
"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."