Luck Quotes

Franklin d. roosevelt - i think we consider too much the good luck of the...
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox
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
John hay, distichs, latter 19th century - true luck consists not in holding the best of the...
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
Douglas jerrold - some people are so fond of ill - luck that they...
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
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Schula
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.
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 thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitle
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
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
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
Old birds are hard to pluck.
German 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
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
Denis Watley
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Author Unknown
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.
Signs
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 am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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".
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
Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.
Office Space
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.
Langston Coleman
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.
Douglas Gerald
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
Chinese Prove
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Assyrian 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
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Wystan Hugh Auden
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
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
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Plato
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
G. K. Chesterton
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