quotations about luck
Luck knows no limits.
SENECA
Oedipus
After hard work, the biggest determinate is being in the right place at the right time.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
Newsweek, Aug. 4, 1997
The harder I practice, the luckier I get.
GARY PLAYER
Golf Digest, Oct. 2002
That's all your life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. Tot it up -- look at the respective piles. There's nothing you can do about it: nobody shares it out, allocates it to this one or that, it just happens.
WILLIAM BOYD
Any Human Heart
Luck is not chance --
It's Toil --
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Luck is not Chance", Poems
Luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action.
R. A. SALVATORE
The Halfling's Gem
Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Oh, I am fortune's fool!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss anyone's arse.
WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Goddess Fortune", Notes on Illustrations to Dante
Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.
ITALIAN PROVERB
Luck, by definition, is random and completely unpredictable. Good luck is as common as bad luck. Good luck increases returns and bad luck lowers them. Given enough time, however, the net effect of luck on average returns is small. In contrast, skill has a systematic positive effect.
LARRY HARRIS
Trading and Exchanges
I always think luck's a bit like splitting a log. You're much more likely to succeed if you read the grain and look for flaw-lines.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
Good luck beats early rising.
IRISH PROVERB
Luck, be a lady tonight.
FRANK LOESSER
"Luck Be a Lady", Guys and Dolls
Luck has two sides. One you can control--and one you can also control.
NICK OFFERMAN
Big Think, June 8, 2018
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
BRANDON MULL
Keys to the Demon Prison
To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.
SANTIAGO RAMON Y CAJAL
Advice for a Young Investigator
Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
"Of Luck", Essays
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
OVID
attributed, The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL
Satires