Luck Quotes
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
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
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.Coleman Cox
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Miguel de Cervantes
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.Author Unknown
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
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.Langston Coleman
Luck is the residue of design.Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.Unknown
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
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
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblowe
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.Langston Coleman
Good luck beats early rising.Irish Prove
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 happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
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
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
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
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
Care and diligence bring luck.Thomas Fulle
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
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.Assyrian Prove
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
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.James A. Garfield
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.Thomas Carlyle
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.Thomas Jefferson
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
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Benjamin Franklin
Old birds are hard to pluck.German prove
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
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
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
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
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
