Luck Quotes
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%.Langston Coleman
It is bad luck to be superstitious.Andrew W. Mathis
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
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
Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.Office Space
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
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
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".
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
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
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
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
Go and wake up your luck.Persian Prove
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
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
The harder you work, the luckier you get.Plato
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.Neil Peart
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
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
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
Diligence is the mother of good luck.American Prove
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.Wystan Hugh Auden
As ill - Luck would have it.Miguel de Cervantes
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.Author Unknown
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.Harry Golden
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
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".
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Benjamin Franklin
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Miguel de Cervantes
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
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
