Luck Quotes

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.

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I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Butler Leacock

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblowe

Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis

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

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

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

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

Care and diligence bring luck.

Thomas Fulle

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

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

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

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Author Unknown

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Neil Peart

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Thomas Carlyle

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

American Prove

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Didrikson

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Garrison Keillo

Good luck beats early rising.

Irish Prove

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

Go and wake up your luck.

Persian Prove