Luck Quotes

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.

Douglas Jerrold

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.

Langston Coleman

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.

Assyrian Prove

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 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

Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

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

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

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Schula

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

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

Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

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

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Robert A. Heinlein

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.

Office Space

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

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

Bret Harte

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

American Prove

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

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

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca