quotations about luck
So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Good and Bad Luck", Hints on Success in Life
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
OG MANDINO
attributed, Secrets of Lucky People: A Study of the Laws of Good Luck
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
letter to Scottie Fitzgerald, Sep. 19, 1938
Luck knows no limits.
SENECA
Oedipus
A sharp eye is the mother of good luck.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Moveable Feast
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more of it I have.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Leacock on Life
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
DUTCH PROVERB
I always think luck's a bit like splitting a log. You're much more likely to succeed if you read the grain and look for flaw-lines.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.
TIMOTHY ZAHN
Heir to the Empire
The public man needs but one patron, namely the lucky moment.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
written under pseudonym of Pisistratus Caxton, What Will He Do With It?
Even the luckless need their luck.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Oh, I am fortune's fool!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
Luck has two sides. One you can control--and one you can also control.
NICK OFFERMAN
Big Think, June 8, 2018
Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.
ITALIAN PROVERB
There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in the poverty of a wretched old age, the misfortunes of their lives. Luck forever ran against them, and for others; one, with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time a-fishing, when he should have been in the office; another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him; another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence to everything but his business; and another, who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Twelve Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold
Luck sure didn't look like a lady tonight, more like the bitch she always was.
ROB THURMAN
Nightlife
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Lake Wobegon Days
A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings