Luck Quotes
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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck. (Quote by - John Jakes)
When God throws the dice are loaded. (Quote by - Greek Proverb)
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. (Quote by - James Agee)
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself. (Quote by - Arthur Hailey)
I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break. (Quote by - Joan Ganz Cooney)
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. (Quote by - Sophocles)
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. (Quote by - Kathleen Tierney Andrus)
Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. (Quote by - John Heywood)
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. (Quote by - Patrick Murray)
Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign. (Quote by - David Zucker)
Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky. (Quote by - Deborah Kerr)
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
Good luck needs no explanation. (Quote by - Shirley Temple)
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. (Quote by - William McFee)
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage. (Quote by - Halle Berry)
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part. (Quote by - Neil Diamond)
I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though. (Quote by - Julie Bowen)
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. (Quote by - Timothy Zahn)
Give luck a chance to happen. (Quote by - Tom Kite)
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck. (Quote by - Grenville Kleiser)
I fought Sugar so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes. (Quote by - Jake LaMotta)
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. (Quote by - James Thomas Fields)
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. (Quote by - Plutarch)
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game. (Quote by - Zinedine Zidane)
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Luck is the residue of design. (Quote by - Branch Rickey)
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead. (Quote by - Luis Bunuel)
I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die. (Quote by - Rose McGowan)
To believe in luck ... is skepticism. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. (Quote by - Christopher Isherwood)
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain, 'tis not conferred of any, but possible to earn. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)
Then here goes another, says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)
It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck. (Quote by - Al Alvarez)
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. (Quote by - Robert Sheckley)
I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason. (Quote by - Nelly)
Good night, and good luck. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins. (Quote by - Eric Avery)
In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good. (Quote by - Seve Ballesteros)
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come. (Quote by - Serena Williams )
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. (Quote by - Elizabeth Blackwell)
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me. (Quote by - Graham Taylor)
The worst cynicism, a belief in luck. (Quote by - Joyce Carol Oates)
An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted (Quote by - Charles Poore)
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Quote by - John Heywood)
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting. (Quote by - Mike Thompson)
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
Good luck is a residue of preparation. (Quote by - Jack Youngblood)
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lec)
Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them. (Quote by - Malcolm Wilson)
The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. (Quote by - James B. Hill)
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. (Quote by - Virginia Graham)
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident. (Quote by - Edmond Fischer)
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. (Quote by - Fred Saberhagen)
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. (Quote by - Ovid)
I thought ginger people were lucky. He might have to dye his hair now or I might buy him a brown, long-haired wig so he'll look like me! [on Gary Waddock] (Quote by - Gareth Ainsworth)
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. (Quote by - pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic. (Quote by - Roger Staubach)
Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the result of any great design, but of chance. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better. (Quote by - Norman Parkinson)
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it. (Quote by - Robert Collier)
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. (Quote by - J. Carter Brown)
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different. (Quote by - Arthur Goldberg)
Luck never made a man wise. (Quote by - Seneca, Letters to Lucilius)
They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
A best friend is like a four leaf clover:hard to find and lucky to have. (Quote by - Sarah Jessica Parker)
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes. (Quote by - Amy Grant)
He's been very, very lucky, an average player who came into the game when it was short of personalities [on Kevin Keegan] (Quote by - George Best)
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. (Quote by - Harry Golden)
In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent. (Quote by - Loretta Lynn)
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident. (Quote by - Merv Griffin)
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Pennies do not come from heaven (Quote by - they have to be earned here on earth. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for her magnetizes to your home those who love every heart. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Go and wake up your luck. (Quote by - Persian Saying)
Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch. (Quote by - Max O'Relling)
Be grateful for luck. (Quote by - Eubie Blake)
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure. (Quote by - Michael Levine)
Of course, fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important. (Quote by - Jeanne Detourbey)
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. (Quote by - Jacky Ickx)
Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course. (Quote by - Alex Trebek)
Everything in life is luck. (Quote by - Donald Trump)
I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life. (Quote by - Marla Maples)
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo. (Quote by - Alison Moyet)
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to. (Quote by - Donnie Iris)
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him! (Quote by - George Kennedy )
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. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it. (Quote by - Phyllis Bottome)
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. (Quote by - Anne Tyler)
I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over. (Quote by - Rod Stewart)
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.(Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. (Quote by - Paula Cole)
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments. (Quote by - Edmond H. Fischer)
Luck is what a capricious man believes in. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. (Quote by - Rosellen Brown)
I have to say Arsenal were very lucky tonight, especially coming from nine days without a match. (Quote by - Fabio Capello)
I've been unlucky with injuries and have had four knee operations but I've got one of the best strike rates ever for England (Quote by - Darren Gough)
I am depressed because of the state of my life at the moment. I've got this 'orrible feeling that if there is such a thing as reincarnation, knowing my luck, I'll come back as me. [As Rodney] (Quote by - Nicholas Lyndhurst)
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. (Quote by - Langston Coleman)
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years. (Quote by - Steve Waugh)
It was not so much a lucky mascot any more. But my daughter, Chelsea, is glad to have him back (Quote by - Stuart Pearce)
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. (Quote by - Louise Erdrich)
I still have horrible luck with girls. (Quote by - Jonathan Bennett)
He was a happy-go-lucky man, always played with a smile on his face and never had a bad word to say about anyone. (Quote by - John Parrott)
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. (Quote by - J. Christopher Herold)
Good luck has its storms. (Quote by - George Lucas)
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck. (Quote by - Allan Sherman)
You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck. (Quote by - Joshua Leonard)
Chance favors those in motion. (Quote by - Dr. James H. Austin)
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision. (Quote by - Howard Schultz)
There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I am persuaded that luck and timing have, in my case, been very important. (Quote by - Mike Wallace)
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life. (Quote by - Eddie Slovik)
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. (Quote by - Charles Kuralt)
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. (Quote by - Coretta Scott King)
Luck has had a great deal to do with my career. (Quote by - John Glover)
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success. (Quote by - Anon.)
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it. (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. (Quote by - Jonathan Lethem)
Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. (Quote by - Babyface)
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. (Quote by - Charles Kuralt)
Then come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind. (Quote by - Henry Jackson Van Dyke)
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. (Quote by - John Heywood)
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. (Quote by - Lady Murasaki)
There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work. (Quote by - Martina Arroyo)
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favouring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. (Quote by - John Dewey)
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. (Quote by - Jimmy Buffett)
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me. (Quote by - Gene Tierney)
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. (Quote by - Michelle Hunziker)
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck. (Quote by - Marian Erickson)
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. (Quote by - Joel Chandler Harris)
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. (Quote by - John Milton)
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. (Quote by - Don Sutton)
I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck. (Quote by - Sarah Hughes)
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. (Quote by - Arab proverb)
He just said he had had enough and wished me good luck. (Quote by - Stephen Hendry)
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck. (Quote by - Arthur Golden)
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know. (Quote by - John Grisham)
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. (Quote by - Dennis Quaid)
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle. (Quote by - Chuang-tzu)
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky. (Quote by - Armand Hammer)
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. (Quote by - Denzel Washington)
I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck! (Quote by - Deborah Bull)
Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word. (Quote by - David Gest)
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well. (Quote by - James MacArthur)
I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on. (Quote by - Angela Merkel)
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances. (Quote by - Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles, and they make me lucky. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have. (Quote by - Dave Thomas)
I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune. (Quote by - Jerry Delia Femina)
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but it didn't work for the rabbit! (Quote by - Anonymous)
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. (Quote by - Mary Pickford)
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day. (Quote by - Philip Pullman)
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. (Quote by - George S. Clason)
As an Australian I'm lucky that I have done a lot of camping here but I suspect nothing on the scale of what I'm going to face in the jungle (Quote by - Kimberley Davies)
'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success. (Quote by - Homer)
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise. (Quote by - John Webster)
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. (Quote by - Flora Whittemore)
I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Good luck to them. While we're not allowed to do it in New Zealand, they're obviously allowed to do it over here. Our policy is to produce the best cricket wickets possible, not ones that suit the home team. [on sour grapes over the wickets the games were played on] (Quote by - John Bracewell)
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time. (Quote by - Patrick Stewart)
Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving (Quote by - Steve Winwood)
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now. (Quote by - Edie Brickell)
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. (Quote by - Dr. Armand Hammer)
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw. (Quote by - Judith Guest)
Some folk want their luck buttered. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
I had the luck of having an obedient body. (Quote by - Burt Lancaster)
Behind bad luck comes good luck. (Quote by - Gipsy Proverb)
As ill-luck would have it. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. (Quote by - L. M. Montgomery)
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person. (Quote by - Steven Gerrard )
I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes. (Quote by - Michelle Kwan)
I have only one real hobby: my husband. [Either lucky or poor husband then!] (Quote by - Florence Harding)
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck. (Quote by - Clyde Tombaugh)
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
In short, Luck's always to blame. (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on. (Quote by - Sylvie Guillem)
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck. (Quote by - Haile Gebrselassie)
The champion makes his own luck. (Quote by - Red Blaik)
I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men. (Quote by - Elizabeth Arden)
I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. (Quote by - Ray A. Kroc)
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. (Quote by - Aaron Allston)
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Luck never gives; it only lends. (Quote by - Swedish Proverb)
When he was included last summer I sent him a text to say good luck. There's nothing personal between us, we know that. It's a selection thing. [on him and Chris Read] (Quote by - Geraint Jones)
I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck." (Quote by - Orlando Bloom)
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck. (Quote by - James Fixx)
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? (Quote by - William Dean Howells)
I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in. (Quote by - Merton Miller)
I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. (Quote by - Ron Perlman)
I find I'm luckier when I work harder. (Quote by - Dr. Denton Cooley)
I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year. (Quote by - David Friedman)
When it comes to luck, you make your own. (Quote by - Bruce Springsteen)
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. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. (Quote by - Dianne Feinstein)
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. (Quote by - Kevin Eubanks)
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. (Quote by - Lewis J. Bates)
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. (Quote by - Richard Linklater)
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. (Quote by - Victor Cherbuliez)
You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time. (Quote by - Jinger Heath)
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. (Quote by - Ignazio Silone)
People make their own luck. (Quote by - David Liederman)
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. (Quote by - E. B. White)
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. (Quote by - Larry King)
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. (Quote by - Anonymous)
