Luck Quotes

John hay, distichs, latter 19th century - true luck consists not in holding the best of the...
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
Earl wilson - success is simply a matter of luck. ask any...
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
Langston coleman - luck is what you have left over after you give...
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
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
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
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Wystan Hugh Auden
He who does not venture has no luck.
Mexican Prove
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".
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
G. K. Chesterton
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
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 is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
Robert A. Heinlein
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
Richter cartoon caption
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
Chinese Prove
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
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.
Unknown
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Schula
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
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitle
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Assyrian Prove
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
Andrew W. Mathis
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
Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fulle
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
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
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
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca