Guy de Maupassant on luck

How life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!

Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur1822–1895

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974