Luck Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Edward Gibbon,
Irish Proverb,
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| It was not enough, Napoleon observed, that he should have good generals; he wanted them to be lucky generals, also. In foreign affairs brains, preparation, judgement and power are of utmost importance, but luck is essential. |
| - Dean Acheson |
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| The highest degree of wisdom Man can possess is by no means equal to fortuitous events. |
| - Joseph Addison |
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| Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. |
| - W.H. Auden |
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| Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| The force of chance is diffused throughout the whole order of things. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Most of the folks I know who have good luck seem to have good judgment too. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Some day my ship will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long." |
| - Richard Bach |
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| Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. |
| - John Barrymore |
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| I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. |
| - Hector Berlioz |
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| A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it. |
| - Niels Bohr |
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| Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter." |
| - Charlotte Brontë |
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| Fate laughs at probabilities. |
| - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
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| Where there is great love there are always miracles. |
| - Willa Cather |
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| Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you, and they who lose today may win tomorrow. |
| - Miguel de Cervantes |
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| On the outcome of World War II: 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 lion's roar. I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| It's hard to detect good luck- it looks so much like something you've earned. |
| - Frank A. Clark |
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| Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. |
| - George Clason |
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| We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like |
| - Jean Cocteau |
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| It often amuses me to hear men impute all their misfortunes to fate, luck, or destiny, whilst their successes or good fortune they ascribe to their own sagacity, cleverness or penetration. |
| - Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| The more you know, the more luck you will have. |
| - Confucius |
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| Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid." |
| - John Dewey |
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| Luck is not chance — It's toil — Fortune's expensive smile Is earned. |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| I am realistic - I expect miracles. |
| - Wayne Dyer |
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| When you have good luck in anything, you ought to be glad. Indeed if you are not glad, you are not really lucky. |
| - Henry Van Dyke |
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| I'll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. |
| - George Eliot |
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| Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Good fortune like ripe fruit, ought to be enjoyed while it is present. |
| - Epictetus |
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| Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not wish to sign. |
| - Anatole France |
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| Diligence is the mother of good luck. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. |
| - James A. Garfield |
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| All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. |
| - Edward Gibbon |
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| Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. |
| - Edward Gibbon |
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| The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. |
| - Edward Gibbon |
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| Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. |
| - Samuel Goldwyn |
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| We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. |
| - Ellen Goodman |
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| Some folk want their luck buttered. |
| - Thomas Hardy |
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| I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can |
| - Ernest Hemingway |
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| What luck for rulers, that men do not think. |
| - Adolf Hitler |
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| A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| To brag little, to lose well, To crow gently if in luck, To pay up, to own up, To shut up if beaten, Are the virtues of a sportingman. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| A fisherman must be of contemplative mind, for it is often a long time between bites. He is by nature an optimist or he would not go fishing: for we are always going to have better luck in a few minutes or tomorrow. |
| - Herbert Hoover |
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| Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck. |
| - Alfred Edward Housman |
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| Luck is tenacity of purpose. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. |
| - Garrison Keillor |
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| Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. |
| - Larry King |
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| Meaningful coincidences are manifestations of an all-embrassing universal order. |
| - Arthur Koestler |
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| Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. |
| - Ray Kroc |
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| When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck. |
| - Norman Lear |
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| Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. |
| - John Lennon |
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| In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten. |
| - Peter Lynch |
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| Fortune is the arbiter of half the things we do, leaving the other half or so to be controlled by ourselves. |
| - Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Coincidence is the language of destiny |
| - André Malraux |
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| Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. |
| - Og Mandino |
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| Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch. |
| - Max O'Rell |
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| Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish. |
| - Ovid |
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| It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get. |
| - Arnold Palmer |
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| Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. |
| - Laurence J. Peter |
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| Many a stroke of luck has come to many a hopeless man. |
| - Titus Maccius Plautus |
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| Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. |
| - Arab Proverb |
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| Luck stops at the door and inquires whether Prudence is within. |
| - Danish Proverb |
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| Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him. |
| - German Proverb |
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| For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day. |
| - Irish Proverb |
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| May good luck be your friend in whatever you do and may trouble be always a stranger to you. |
| - Irish Proverb |
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| May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night. |
| - Irish Proverb |
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| An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. |
| - Italian Proverb |
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| Go and wake up your luck. |
| - Persian Proverb |
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| The sun once stood still; the Wheel of Fortune, never! |
| - Spanish Proverb |
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| When luck comes to you, invite her in |
| - Spanish Proverb |
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| Luck never gives; it only lends. |
| - Swedish Proverb |
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| Good Luck is what is left over after intelligence and efforts have combined at their best…Luck is the residue of design. |
| - Branch Rickey |
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| Greater qualities are necessary to bear good fortune than bad. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| It takes a better man to survive good luck than bad |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| I always knock on wood before I make my entrance. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. |
| - George Santayana |
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| Impossible situations can become possible miracles. |
| - Robert H. Schuller |
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| Fortuna takes away nothing that she has't already given. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Luck never made a man wise. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood, leads on to forture; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. |
| - Frank Sinatra |
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| One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others. |
| - Alexander Smith |
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| A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. |
| - Sophocles |
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| Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs. |
| - John Steinbeck |
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| I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled, til I have a good hand. |
| - Jonathan Swift |
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| It is a very bad thing to become accustomed to good luck. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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| A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. |
| - Brian Tracy |
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| Popularity and glamour are only part of the factors involved in winning elections. One of the most important of all is luck. In my own case, luck was always with me. |
| - Harry S Truman |
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| Everything in life is luck. |
| - Donald Trump |
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| Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The very best thing in all this world that can befall a man is to be born lucky. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. |
| - Anne Tyler |
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| Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. |
| - E.B. White |
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| To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. |
| - Walt Whitman |
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| Luck is believing you're lucky. |
| - Tennessee Williams |
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| Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity |
| - Oprah Winfrey |
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| I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. |
| - Steven Wright |
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