quotations about luck
That is life, isn't it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if's that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics. Fate. Luck. Chance.
KELSEYLEIGH REBER
If I Fall
Success is just a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON
attributed, Quips, Quotes & Queries
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU
attributed, Forbes, 1985
Just my luck! When my ship came in, I was stuck at the airport!
MAX KAUFFMANN
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Maxims of James Abram Garfield
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
Luck is for sure a thing. It's just not the only thing.
JOSHUA EFERIGHE
"The lie of luck", Kulture Hub, June 6, 2018
Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
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
attributed, Day's Collacon
Luck and ill luck are neighbors.
NORWEGIAN PROVERB
Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
KURT VONNEGUT
The Sirens of Titan
Good luck doesn't last forever.
ROMAN PROVERB
Ill luck upon ill luck and a stone for a pillow.
SPANISH PROVERB
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Pilgrims
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
Think Big
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
In the Face of Danger
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
As for luck, wait in your bed.
JAPANESE PROVERB
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
Luck can only get you so far.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince