sorta.. but it's what you make of it

I don't know about mostly but life appears to be very random and then you get good and bad luck along the way but to use a cliche, it's not the cards you're dealt that counts, it's how you play them that matter

Yes and who you know.

Not really no. Not sure who said it, but "the harder I work, the luckier I get."

Not all of it.

Where you were born and to what family, yes.

When and how you will die, yes.

Everything in between, no. That part is about leveraging opportunities and good risk assessment skills.

I tell people my life has been 25% hard work, 25% smarts and 50% luck. Your mileage may vary.

I think life is more about your ability to adjust and plan. I'm told that I'm very lucky, but many of those things I have prepared years for.

Luck doesn’t exist.

A very wise person I once knew once said "Live is a lottery. If you are smart and you work hard, you get more tickets"

I have had chance meetings that have impacted my life, so unless you are a person who believes our lives are predetermined, it was luck. A Major l knew when l was in the Army had saying, " Blind Ass Luck Triumphs Over Skill And Knowledge Every Time."

Its a matter of where you are located at a certain period of time - who you meet, what influence they have in your life and how you respond to it. Almost a game of chance.

Partly. But luck favors the prepared.

No. Part ofit is being at the right place at the right time, but part of our "fate" is due to what we think, do, and create.

No such thing as luck-luck is for those who want to give away control from their lives. To blame bad descisions in life on luck. The latter is akin to a religion to me and to be honest I disagree with the concept.

Always think that I make my own luck, by rational decision though out plans improving on what mistakes
I have encountered the past and logical deduction,

You can be lucky and win the lottery and then squander the winnings . Life is the same

Luck, crapshoot. Semantics.

I think we have different words for different situations. 1-To me, luck is having a bad accident and coming out of it without a scratch. 2-than there is chance, as in you meet someone who may bankroll your great idea. 3-Then there is, being in the right place at the right time when you buy your winning lotto thicket. After all said and done, if you are a good, decent, considerate and hard working person, you may not need any of these with the exception of no. 1.

There is a high degree of randomness associated with life. For humans, the randomness can be dealt with, but not always satisfactorily. From the way the question is worded, I have the feeling you meant 'fate'.

You make your own luck, or so an old friend told me. Mine is mostly not very good and it can't help affecting my general optimism. The distribution isn't fair, but neither is life, so we take what we get. Ocasionally good fortune shines on me enough to make the down times more palatable.

Maybe I would use the word 'odds' and we're the dice. Or are we the ones rolling the dice? Both? Anywho I'm a big ol' 20 sided die!

Initially, yes. What sort of human you are determines your future life..which culture, race, religion, gender, and time era you are born into. For instance, no matter how talented you are it won't do much good if you were born a crippled, blind, black woman in the South during the early 1800s.

You are luckey if you have luck. It is always good to have a plan for the future. Then let luck fall where it may.

I believe we make our own luck through our actions or inactions that bring us closer to a desired end state.

I made this comment in a similar post about luck.

I use it as a simple one-word figure of speech describing an advantageous situation or coincidence.