Luck Quotes

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. (Ovid)
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? View quote
Jean Cocteau
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. View quote
James A. Garfield
We've had bad luck with children they've all grown up. View quote
Christopher Morley
Luck is the residue of design. View quote
Branch Rickey
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. View quote
Savielly Tartakower
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. View quote
Anne Tyler
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Good night, and good luck. (Edward R. Murrow)
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. View quote
Stephen Leacock
And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that. View quote
Ed Bradley
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky. View quote
John Travolta
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment. View quote
Livy
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck. View quote
Joseph Heller
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. View quote
Lucille Ball
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. (Iris Murdoch)
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. View quote
Denzel Washington
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. View quote
Brian Tracy
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. View quote
Winston Churchill
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre