Luck Quotes
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?Rothschild
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
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
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
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.Babe Didrikson
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
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.James A. Garfield
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
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
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.C. S. Forester, Commodore Hornblowe
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.G. K. Chesterton
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.Seneca
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.Assyrian Prove
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
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 if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Go and wake up your luck.Persian Prove
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.Earl Wilson
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".
What luck for rulers that men do not think.Adolf Hitle
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
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
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
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
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Miguel de Cervantes
Diligence is the mother of good luck.American Prove
Good luck beats early rising.Irish Prove
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
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
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 bad luck to be superstitious.Andrew W. Mathis
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
