LUCK QUOTES II

quotations about luck

The concept of luck is actually quite complex and thus should not be dismissed as simply superstition or sloppy thinking. In a basic sense, luck is synonymous with chance. When individuals presume the workings of luck in their lives, though, they often "spin" the effects of luck to be positive or negative, as in having good luck or bad luck. Furthermore, although the presumption of luck (or chance) implies that events are beyond human control, much of the preoccupation with luck involves performing actions that are hoped to influence (namely improve) luck. Now, mix in this variable: that luck completely contradicts the theologies of Christianity and Buddhism.... Obviously, something quite strange is going on.

JASON SLONE

Theological Incorrectness : Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn't


Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

JOSEPHINE HART

Damage

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The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

MASON COOLEY

City Aphorisms

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If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.

ALBERT KING

"Born Under a Bad Sign", Born Under a Bad Sign


I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The Old Man and the Sea

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Trust your luck ... but don't forget to put out your nets!

LLOYD ALEXANDER

Taran Wanderer


Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

ANONYMOUS


You can create your own luck just like a cloud can create its own rain. You create your own luck by the way you act, think, feel, and talk. If these ingredients you're using to create your luck are distorted, then what will follow is bad luck all the way, like a thunderstorm. But if you're especially careful to watch how you think, then the sweet aroma of good luck will rain upon you almost everywhere you go.

MARK BENEDICT

The Method of Selling


Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

JUVENAL

attributed, Day's Collacon

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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.

BILL WATTERSON

It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

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Luck is the residue of design.

ARAB PROVERB


The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

BRET HARTE

"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"

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Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.

IAN FLEMING

Casino Royale

Tags: Ian Fleming


Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

RAY KROE

attributed, "The McDonald's Mystique", Fortune Magazine, Jul. 4, 1988


There is no man whom luck or fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

CARDINAL IMPERIALI

attributed, Day's Collacon


The devil's children have the devil's luck.

ENGLISH PROVERB


Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

PETER REDGROVE

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense


That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Indeed, there is hardly a word in the vocabulary which is more cruelly abused than the word "luck." To all the faults and failures of men, their positive sins and their less culpable shortcomings, it is made to stand a godfather and sponsor. We are all Micawbers at heart, fancying that "something" will one day "turn up" for our good, for which we have never striven. Go talk with the bankrupt man of business, who has swamped his fortune by wild speculation, extravagance of living, or lack of energy, and you will find that he vindicates his wounded self-love by confounding the steps which he took indiscreetly with those to which he was forced by "circumstances," and complacently regarding himself as the victim of ill-luck. Go visit the incarcerated criminal, who has imbrued his hands in the blood of his fellow-man, or who is guilty of less heinous crimes, and you will find that, slumping the temptations which were easy to avoid with those which were comparatively irresistible, he has hurriedly patched up a treaty with conscience, and stifles its compunctious visitings by persuading himself that, from first to last, he was the victim of circumstances. Go talk with the mediocre in talents and attainments, the weak-spirited man who, from lack of energy and application, has made but little headway in the world, being outstripped in the race of life by those whom he had despised as his inferiors, and you will find that he, too, acknowledges the all-potent power of luck, and soothes his humbled pride by deeming himself the victim of ill-fortune. In short, from the most venial offense to the most flagrant, there is hardly any wrong act or neglect to which this too fatally convenient word is not applied as a palliation. It has been truly said that there is a fine generality in the expression--a power of any meaning or no meaning--which fits it for all purposes alike. It is the great permanent non-papal, and self-granted indulgence of all mankind.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

"Good and Bad Luck", Hints on Success in Life