Category: luck...

seeing hard work beat good luck over and over
meditating on the notion of self-exertion, through which you make your "luck"
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. (R. Davies)
The powerless worship luck and fate. (M. Cooley)
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? (J. Cocteau)
Good night, and good luck. (Edward R. Murrow)
good luck charms, talismans, amulets, lockets, yantras, rabbit's feet, feng shui, netsuke
the physical attributes of some animals have been used throughout human history to offer protection and guardianship whether through association or sympathetic magic