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

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Joesph Heller, Catch - 22

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Thomas Carlyle

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.

Assyrian Prove

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit - - Such are the just grounds for the regrets I have...

D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man".

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

Old birds are hard to pluck.

German prove

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".

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Richard Jeni

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblowe

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Neil Peart

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

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.

Samuel Smiles

Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.

Signs

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis

Go and wake up your luck.

Persian Prove

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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.

Garrison Keillo

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

I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Ogden Nash

Good luck beats early rising.

Irish Prove

Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.

Denis Watley

Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.

Office Space

Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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