quotations about luck
When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.
DONALD TRUMP
Think Big
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Maxims of James Abram Garfield
Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.
PAT CONROY
The Prince of Tides
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
SAMUEL SMILES
Thrift
Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.
FRANKLIN JONES
attributed, Great Sayings and Quotations
Luck is a precious commodity. There's only so much to go around. And even if you do have a good-luck streak, some balancing bad luck is right around the corner. Just ask any honest gambler.
CAPRICE CRANE
With a Little Luck: A Novel
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but taken them -- besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Good and bad luck is but a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. The prudent, the considerate, the circumspect, or the industrious, seldom complain of their ill-luck; it is only the grumbler, the idler, and the gambler who protest against the ills of misfortune.
CHATFIELD
attributed, Day's Collacon
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.
AUSONIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
God is a father; luck is a stepfather.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Just my luck! When my ship came in, I was stuck at the airport!
MAX KAUFFMANN
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
STEVEN WRIGHT
stand-up routine
Watch out w'en you're gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
"Plantation Proverbs", Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
Lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA
The Exiled Queen
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
Bad luck comes and goes ... but I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, "It's destiny!"
JEAN VAN HAMME
Dutch Connection
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
What's Bred in the Bone
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Quote Junkie: Philosophy Edition