Luck Quotes

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 when preparation meets opportunity.

Neil Peart

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

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

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

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitle

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

Care and diligence bring luck.

Thomas Fulle

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

Christopher Isherwood

I never knew an early - Rising, hard - working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Henry Ward Beeche

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

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".

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.

Douglas Gerald

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca

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

Earl Wilson

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

Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

Assyrian Prove

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

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

Stephen Butler Leacock

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

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

Office Space

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

American Prove

As ill - Luck would have it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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".

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

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

Good luck beats early rising.

Irish Prove

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Plato

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

Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.

Douglas Jerrold

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