quotations about luck
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
OG MANDINO
attributed, Secrets of Lucky People: A Study of the Laws of Good Luck
So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Good and Bad Luck", Hints on Success in Life
Luck sure didn't look like a lady tonight, more like the bitch she always was.
ROB THURMAN
Nightlife
After hard work, the biggest determinate is being in the right place at the right time.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
Newsweek, Aug. 4, 1997
I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.
TIMOTHY ZAHN
Heir to the Empire
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON
attributed, Quote Unquote
A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
FELIX DENNIS
How to Get Rich
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
An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.
FRENCH PROVERB
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
Hints on Success in Life
Luck's just another word for destiny ... either you make your own or you're screwed.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
The Mission Song
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
letter to Scottie Fitzgerald, Sep. 19, 1938
Even the luckless need their luck.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Luck has two sides. One you can control--and one you can also control.
NICK OFFERMAN
Big Think, June 8, 2018
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
Any Human Heart
Here's the thing about luck ... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
ALICE HOFFMAN
Local Girls
Luck is a discernible, if mysterious, pattern of influences on your life path.
DAVID DANIEL KENNEDY
Feng Shui for Dummies
There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
Luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action.
R. A. SALVATORE
The Halfling's Gem