Luck Quotes

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

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

Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Luck is the residue of design.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Good music always defeats bad luck

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

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.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Luck? 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.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

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.

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.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

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.

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.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

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.

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.

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.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Give luck a chance to happen.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

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.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

I wish you luck with a capital F.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

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.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

Luck is the residue of design.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

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

Art depends on luck and talent.

People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

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

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

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.

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.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

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