Luck Quotes - Page 2

The worst cynicism a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Calvin Coolidge

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Benjamin Disraeli

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Johann von Goethe

Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.

James Russell Lowell

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Alfred Hitchcock

Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Marian Erickson

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.

Coretta Scott King

Everything in life is luck.

I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.

William E. Woodward

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.

Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.

François de La Rochefoucauld

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Anonymous

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Phyllis Bottome

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.

Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation

I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.

I’m so far from lucky, I’m kissing its ass from the other side.

You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that-- it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.

Michelle Diener

Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence have had good luck. The former are better off than the latter in two respects only, whereas the poor but lucky man has the advantage in many ways; for though the rich have the means to satisfy their appetites and to bear calamities, and the poor have not, the poor, if they are lucky, are more likely to keep clear of trouble, and will have besides the blessings of a sound body, health, freedom from trouble, fine children, and good looks.Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word “happy” in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky.

Herodotus

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

Hunter S. Thompson

We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work

Celso Cukierkorn

I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck

Rob Reger

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

If you are not lucky enough, you can’t reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need ‘luck’ to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

Mehmet Murat ildan

That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

Malcolm Gladwell

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

Joe Abercrombie

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth,Wednesday the best day of all,Thursday for crosses,Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.

Baltasar Gracián

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

Charles Bukowski

Luck is a point where hard work meets the opportunity

Firoz Thairinil

You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.

Margaret Atwood

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

Guy Gavriel Kay

Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Terry Pratchett

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

E B White

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

Tennessee Williams

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

Jeanette Winterson

Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gimp and speech impediment, lived a long life doing pretty much what he wanted. He hadn't drawn the best of cards, but he'd played his hand darned well, so what was there to grieve over?

Jeannette Walls

A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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