The only true failure lies in the failure to start. Eighty per cent of success is just showing up. By the law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again and again. There is a tide in your affairs, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. As events tend to repeat themselves, the tide of opportunity will come to you.
Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
When you are prepared your chance for success is sure to come. You can change chance into good fortune when you are ready. The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. Although your character is formed by circumstances, your own desires can do much to shape those circumstances. What is truly ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that you have the power over the formation of your own character.