Luck Quotes
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.Seneca
Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.Office Space
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.Chinese Prove
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.Coleman Cox
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
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
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.Bret Harte
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
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".
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
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
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.Neil Peart
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
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
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
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.Thomas Jefferson
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
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
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.Babe Didrikson
What luck for rulers that men do not think.Adolf Hitle
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.Langston Coleman
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblowe
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
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
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
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 strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Benjamin Franklin
As ill - Luck would have it.Miguel de Cervantes
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
