Luck - Quotes

A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see and pursuing that vision. - Howard Schultz

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy. - Aurelius

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. - Juvenal

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year. - Edgar Watson Howe

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. - Henry Ward Beecher

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. - James A Garfield

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit. - Ambrose Bierce

A sharp eye is the mother of good luck. - Ken Alstad

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side. - Margi Preus

All psychological studies indicate that a person's luck is influenced by his state of mind. - June Sawyer

An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. - Unknown

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck. - Franklin Jones

Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. - Joan Lowery Nixon

Chance may throw a fortune into anyone’s lap, but what is termed luck usually is the fruit of shrewdness and persistency. - Baltasar Gracian

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration. - Peter Redgrove

Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. - Og Mandino

Good and bad luck is but a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. The prudent, the considerate, the circumspect, or the industrious, seldom complain of their ill-luck; it is only the grumbler, the idler, and the gambler who protest against the ills of misfortune. - Chatfield

Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope. - Sakura Tsukuba

Good luck doesn't last forever. - Roman Proverb

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others. - Jackie Stewart

Good luck is often with the man who does not include it in his plans. - Unknown

Good luck is the twin brother of hard work. - Unknown

Here's the thing about luck ... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. - Alice Hoffman

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

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck; a good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. - Joseph Addison

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. - Brian Tracy

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Unknown 

If lucky, be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond. - Ausonius

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

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it. - Unknown

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. - Baltasar Gracian

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to ‘make’ your luck by being always prepared. - Michael Korda

Luck is good planning, carefully executed. - Unknown

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. - E. B. White

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. - Unknown

Luck is the crossroads where preparation and opportunity meet. - Unknown

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca

Luck is what you have left over after you give one hundred percent. - Langston Coleman

Luck may win a few deals, but in the long run it is the better player who scores the highest. - Unknown

Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune. - John Angell James

Lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both. - Cinda Williams Chima

Most of the folks I know who have good luck seem to have good judgment too. - Unknown

Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me. - John Heywood

Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air. - James Vila Blake 

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. - James Ellis

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. - Anne Tyler

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position. - William Matthews

That's all your life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. Tot it up – look at the respective piles. There's nothing you can do about it: nobody shares it out, allocates it to this one or that, it just happens. - William Boyd

The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but taken them – besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor. - E. H. Chapin

The concept of luck is actually quite complex and thus should not be dismissed as simply superstition or sloppy thinking. In a basic sense, luck is synonymous with chance. When individuals presume the workings of luck in their lives, though, they often "spin" the effects of luck to be positive or negative, as in having good luck or bad luck. Furthermore, although the presumption of luck (or chance) implies that events are beyond human control, much of the preoccupation with luck involves performing actions that are hoped to influence (namely improve) luck. - Jason Slone 

The devil's children have the devil's luck. - English Proverb

The difference between bad luck and good luck is the difference in our attitude toward circumstances and events. - Adelaide Hensley

The more you know the better your luck. - Unknown

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. - Channing Pollock

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

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why. - Kurt Vonnegut

Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging. - English Proverb

There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn to their own disadvantage. - Rochefoucauld

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. - Balthasar Gracian

There is no man whom luck or fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. - Cardinal Imperiali 

There is no substitute for incomprehensible good luck. - Unknown

There may be luck in getting a good job – but there’s no luck in keeping it. - J. Ogden Armour 

Trust your luck ... but don't forget to put out your nets! - Lloyd Alexander

When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her. - Spanish Proverb

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. - Donald Trump

You can create y our own luck just like a cloud can create its own rain. You create your own luck by the way you act, think, feel, and talk. If these ingredients you're using to create your luck are distorted, then what will follow is bad luck all the way, like a thunderstorm. But if you're especially careful to watch how you think, then the sweet aroma of good luck will rain upon you almost everywhere you go. - Mark Benedict

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you. - Garrison Keillor

You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky.... To hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you are lucky. - Tennessee Williams

You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. - Eleanor Roosevelt

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. - Cormac McCarthy

You never know your luck till the wheel stops. - Ken ALstad