Luck Quotes
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
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".
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
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
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.James A. Garfield
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.Author Unknown
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
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
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.Neil Peart
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Miguel de Cervantes
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
The harder you work, the luckier you get.Plato
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.Author Unknown
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.Thomas Jefferson
Good luck beats early rising.Irish Prove
Old birds are hard to pluck.German prove
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.Samuel Smiles
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
Diligence is the mother of good luck.American Prove
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
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
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
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, 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
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
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.Erica Jong
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
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
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 Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
As ill - Luck would have it.Miguel de Cervantes
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
Luck is the residue of design.Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblowe
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
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.Langston Coleman
