Luck Quotes
He who does not venture has no luck.Mexican Prove
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.Seneca
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.John Dewey
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.Don Schula
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.Chinese Prove
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.Richter cartoon caption
As ill - Luck would have it.Miguel de Cervantes
Luck is the residue of design.Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Stephen Butler Leacock
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.Unknown
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their luck arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.Srully Blotnick
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Arthur Baldwin
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.Author Unknown
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.Babe Didrikson
What luck for rulers that men do not think.Adolf Hitle
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.The Talmud
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Benjamin Franklin
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.Langston Coleman
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
