Luck Quotes

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...

For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been wor...

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be...

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am gla...

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today...

The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along ...

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi...

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to...

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...

Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great desig...

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you ...

The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever utte...

Some donkeys have amazing luck.

Good luck has its storms.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me...

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit ...

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you rea...

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own b...

Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in pr...

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos b...

They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or...

Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blam...

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by ...

Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at o...

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderat...

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because...

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of ou...

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts ...

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessing...

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with will...

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with will...

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ru...

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I ...

Luck is the residue of design.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; ca...

The worst cynicism a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given,...

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But c...

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when ...

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luc...

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonis...

You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never ...

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm,...

That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

But sometimes it is just when everything seems to be lost that we experience a presentiment that may...

You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't lik...

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I inte...

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel ...

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one cor...

Well, good luck,’ the Vietnam verbal tic...It was as though people couldn’t stop themselves from say...

As ill-luck would have it.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people ...

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Care and diligence bring luck.

Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such mast...

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true ...

So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And...

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.