Luck

If you want to catch a bus you don't sit down and let it run past you, and then say, "How unlucky I am." You run to it and jump on. It is just the same with what some people call "luck"; they complain that luck never comes to them. Well, luck is really the chance of getting something good or of doing something great. The thing is to look out for every chance and seize it-run at it and jump on-don't sit down and wait for it to pass. Opportunity is a bus which has very few stopping places.

Author

Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (Chief Scout, London, UK)

Date of Creation

1908

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