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.
BE SLOW TO ANGER
The Scripture says: “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.”
We are also advised not to let the sun go down on our wrath.
If we desire to succeed in any enterprise we must “possess our souls in patience.” In Luke XVI, 19, it is explained: “In your patience possess your souls.”
We are nowhere advised not to be angry, but to possess our souls in our anger. That is: Never let anger get the better of our control.
In Ephesians IV, 26, it is said: “Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”
This is the key to what is known as “temper.” It is the part of a wise man to control his temper. Not to have any temper at all is to be one whom Col. Roosevelt calls “a mollycoddle,” and such a person is truly weak and without any backbone.