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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortune favours the bold.

- Terence

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

- Miguel de Cervantes

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

- Anita Brookner

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Fortune sides with him who dares.

- Virgil

Chance favors the prepared mind.

- Louis Pasteur

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

- James A. Michener

Get as much experience as you can, so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

- Henry Fonda

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

- Darrell Royal

Luck is the residue of design.

- Branch Rickey

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.

- Ovid

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Luck is being ready for the chance.

- J. Frank Dobie

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

- Joseph Joubert

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

- Anonymous

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

- Oprah Winfrey