quotations about luck
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Moveable Feast
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
letter to Scottie Fitzgerald, Sep. 19, 1938
An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.
FRENCH PROVERB
Luck knows no limits.
SENECA
Oedipus
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
DUTCH PROVERB
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
OG MANDINO
attributed, Secrets of Lucky People: A Study of the Laws of Good Luck
Luck has two sides. One you can control--and one you can also control.
NICK OFFERMAN
Big Think, June 8, 2018
A sharp eye is the mother of good luck.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.
TIMOTHY ZAHN
Heir to the Empire
I always think luck's a bit like splitting a log. You're much more likely to succeed if you read the grain and look for flaw-lines.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
Luck sure didn't look like a lady tonight, more like the bitch she always was.
ROB THURMAN
Nightlife
Even the luckless need their luck.
YIDDISH PROVERB
The public man needs but one patron, namely the lucky moment.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
written under pseudonym of Pisistratus Caxton, What Will He Do With It?
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Lake Wobegon Days
Luck is a discernible, if mysterious, pattern of influences on your life path.
DAVID DANIEL KENNEDY
Feng Shui for Dummies
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more of it I have.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Leacock on Life
Luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action.
R. A. SALVATORE
The Halfling's Gem
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
BRANDON MULL
Keys to the Demon Prison
Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.
ITALIAN PROVERB