Luck Quotes

James a. garfield - a pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck....
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Wystan Hugh Auden
G. k. chesterton - what a glorious garden of wonders the lights of...
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Assyrian Prove
Ernest hemingway, in his nobel prize acceptance speech - for a true writer each book should be a new...
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
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
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.
Douglas Jerrold
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Care and diligence bring luck.
Thomas Fulle
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
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
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, Distichs, latter 19th century
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
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Babe Didrikson
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
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 a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Richard Jeni
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
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
He who does not venture has no luck.
Mexican Prove
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
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
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
American Prove
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
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
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
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 is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Butler Leacock
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.
Unknown
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
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
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
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
Denis Watley
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox
Go and wake up your luck.
Persian Prove
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
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