GOOD AND BAD LUCK
Your success in life never depends upon the turn of a card or the dice. You can neither dream yourself into good luck, nor dream yourself out of bad luck.
Good luck keeps company only with industrious, thrifty and honorable people who have faith in themselves, faith in their fellow men, and faith in God.
Even then, luck will disappear like smoke in a wind unless you can also demonstrate that you possess wisdom, patience and courage.
What you think is good luck, may keep company with you for a short time, but will speedily desert you if you do not make good.
The dictionary says “Luck” means “that which happens a person; chance; accident; good fortune; success.”
In your luck you should keep away from the element of “chance” or “accident.” Let your luck depend upon your own efforts, and take things by the forelock and make them come your way. Things will happen you just as you intend they shall.
There is really no such thing as bad luck, for if a thing does not happen because of your mistakes, it is not bad luck but mistake.
Try as you may to reach a certain result, and failing, you say you had bad luck. You merely did not know how to succeed or went too far, or reached out for more than you could handle. That is not bad luck, it is mismanagement. You might have succeeded if you had managed properly.
Chance must be kept out of the way or you will flounder about in a swamp whose quicksands will engulf you sooner or later.