quotations about luck
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
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
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
MARGI PREUS
West of the Moon
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
Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds.
IAN FLEMING
Casino Royale
A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
AMBROSE BIERCE
"Epigrams of a Cynic"
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
What's Bred in the Bone
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.
LOUIS NIZER
attributed, Great Sayings and Quotations
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.
SPANISH PROVERB
Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
The Mission Song
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
BIBLE
Ecclesiastes 9:11
It's hard to detect good luck -- it looks so much like something you've earned.
FRANK A. CLARK
attributed, Quote Unquote
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON
attributed, Quote Unquote
Luck is a disease for which hard work is the only remedy.
ANONYMOUS
Paint, Oil and Drug Review, 1897
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Moveable Feast