Luck Quotes
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.Orison Swett Marden
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
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
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.Langston Coleman
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
Old birds are hard to pluck.German prove
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.Thomas Jefferson
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
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.Richter cartoon caption
A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.Unknown
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.Author Unknown
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste Colbert
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Stephen Butler Leacock
As ill - Luck would have it.Miguel de Cervantes
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.Chinese Prove
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident - - The luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.Edward C. Banfield
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.Samuel Goldwyn
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.Neil Peart
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.Bret Harte
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
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
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
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass".
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
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
The harder you work, the luckier you get.Plato
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
Luck is the residue of design.Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
He who does not venture has no luck.Mexican Prove
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.Langston Coleman
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.Harry Golden
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Arthur Baldwin
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
