Luck Quotes
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
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Gerald
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.Denis Watley
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.Douglas Jerrold
Care and diligence bring luck.Thomas Fulle
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
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.Harry Golden
Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.Office Space
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.Neil Peart
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
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
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
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
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Arthur Baldwin
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
Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
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
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
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
Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.Thomas Carlyle
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.Robert A. Heinlein
Old birds are hard to pluck.German prove
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
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".
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
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
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
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
Go and wake up your luck.Persian Prove
As ill - Luck would have it.Miguel de Cervantes
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton
Ill - Luck, you know, seldom comes alone.Miguel de Cervantes
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
