Luck Quotes
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Old birds are hard to pluck.German prove
I never knew an early - Rising, hard - working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.Henry Ward Beeche
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Miguel de Cervantes
The harder you work, the luckier you get.Plato
And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit - - Such are the just grounds for the regrets I have...D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man".
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.Richter cartoon caption
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.Langston Coleman
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
He who does not venture has no luck.Mexican Prove
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Luck is the residue of design.Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Stephen Butler Leacock
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
Care and diligence bring luck.Thomas Fulle
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde
The harder I work, the luckier I get.Samuel Goldwyn
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.Harry Golden
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.John Dewey
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.Assyrian Prove
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.Unknown
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.Abraham Lincoln
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.Srully Blotnick
Good luck beats early rising.Irish Prove
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.Ogden Nash
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident - - The luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.Edward C. Banfield
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?Rothschild
Go and wake up your luck.Persian Prove
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Arthur Baldwin
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.Author Unknown
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
