I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck. - Stanley Baldwin

  2. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon

  3. Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment – that which they cannot anticipate. - Sun Tzu

  4. We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many. - Francine Rivers

  5. You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God. - Mark Batterson

More Quotes By Samuel Goldwyn
  1. Let's have some new cliches.

  2. A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

  3. Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  4. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

  5. When someone does something well applaud I You will make two people happy.

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