Luck Quotes

Langston coleman - luck is what you have left over after you give...
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
Denis Watley
Old birds are hard to pluck.
German prove
Kathleen norris, o magazine, july 2003 - if we are lucky, we can give in and rest without...
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Walt whitman,
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Neil Peart
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillo
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.
Richter cartoon caption
Some people are so fond of ill - Luck that they run half - way to meet it.
Douglas Jerrold
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
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
Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
Chinese Prove
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
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
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
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
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
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
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
He who does not venture has no luck.
Mexican Prove
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
American Prove
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Assyrian Prove
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
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
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Butler Leacock
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox
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
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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Author Unknown
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
As ill - Luck would have it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Schula