Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I say luck is when an opportunoty comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability.
Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

We don't always get what we want, but sometimes what is happeing is for the best.

It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.