quotations about luck
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
A Streetcar Named Desire
Watch out w'en you're gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
"Plantation Proverbs", Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
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
Living Words
As ill-luck would have it ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Luck simply means rising at six in the morning.
ANONYMOUS
Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries, May 10, 1902
Just my luck! When my ship came in, I was stuck at the airport!
MAX KAUFFMANN
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
I'm very lucky. The only time I was ever up shit creek, I just happened to have a paddle with me.
GEORGE CARLIN
Brain Droppings
Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.
FRANKLIN JONES
attributed, Great Sayings and Quotations
Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.
AUSONIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Pilgrims
Bad luck comes and goes ... but I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, "It's destiny!"
JEAN VAN HAMME
Dutch Connection
Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.
PAT CONROY
The Prince of Tides
The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
WILL CUPPY
How to Attract the Wombat
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
BALTHASAR GRACIAN
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA
The Exiled Queen
God is a father; luck is a stepfather.
YIDDISH PROVERB
I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
STEVEN WRIGHT
stand-up routine
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
What's Bred in the Bone