Luck Quotes

Christopher isherwood - life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a...
Roy d. chapin, jr. - be ready when opportunity comes... luck is the...
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Schula
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
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Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Author Unknown
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Author Unknown
C. s. forester, commodore hornblowe - the lucky man is he who knows how much to leave...
Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.
Office Space
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitle
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
The Talmud
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies
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".
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
The Talmud
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
Chinese Prove
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".
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
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
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
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.
Douglas Gerald
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
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
Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
As ill - Luck would have it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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 what you have left over after you give 100%.
Langston Coleman
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis
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
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Plato
Old birds are hard to pluck.
German prove
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton