Luck Quotes

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.

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques tha...

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in ...

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a stat...

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest peopl...

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going t...

If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating...

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court...

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or...

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

Luck is believing your lucky.

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hur...

Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.

Luck came to those who left a space for it.