“Get as much experience as you can, so that you’re ready when luck works. That’s the luck.” — Henry Fonda
“Luck is the residue of design.” — Branch Rickey
“Chance usually favors the prudent man.” — Joseph Joubert
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson
“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.” — Benjamin Franklin
“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“Autumn: the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” — B.C. Forbes
“Live mindful of how brief your life is.” — Horace
“Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.” — Horace
“Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.” — Tug McGraw
“May you live all the days of your life.” — Jonathan Swift
“Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.” — Austin O’Malley
“One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.” — Anonymous
“Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.” — Marcus Annaeus Seneca