LUCK QUOTES VI

quotations about luck

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

FELIX DENNIS

How to Get Rich


Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

GARRISON KEILLOR

Lake Wobegon Days


Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

DON SUTTON

attributed, Quote Unquote


Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.

JOHN LE CARRÉ

The Mission Song

Tags: John le Carré


Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.

WILLIAM MATTHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


He that has the luck leads the bride to church.

DUTCH PROVERB


Luck is not chance --
It's Toil --
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Luck is not Chance", Poems

Tags: Emily Dickinson


An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.

FRENCH PROVERB

Tags: French proverbs


Even the luckless need their luck.

YIDDISH PROVERB


A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

Tags: Edgar Watson Howe


Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

OG MANDINO

attributed, Secrets of Lucky People: A Study of the Laws of Good Luck


A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

AURELIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Here's the thing about luck ... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

ALICE HOFFMAN

Local Girls


Luck knows no limits.

SENECA

Oedipus

Tags: Seneca


Luck sure didn't look like a lady tonight, more like the bitch she always was.

ROB THURMAN

Nightlife

Tags: Rob Thurman


There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

WILLIAM MATTHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


Luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action.

R. A. SALVATORE

The Halfling's Gem


Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. WHITE

"Control", One Man's Meat

Tags: E. B. White


Oh, I am fortune's fool!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

Tags: William Shakespeare


After hard work, the biggest determinate is being in the right place at the right time.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

Newsweek, Aug. 4, 1997