Luck Quotes

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? (Golden Baby)

~ Alice Brown

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

~ Amit Kalantri

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

~ Amit Kalantri

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

~ John Berryman

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

~ Criss Jami

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

~ Peter Redgrove

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

~ Sheri S. Tepper

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

~ Lew Wallace

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

~ Neil Gaiman

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

~ Lorii Myers

Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.

~ Steve Maraboli

Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.

~ Marty Rubin

The phrase it's better to be lucky than good must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.

~ Garry Kasparov

Luck often sides with the able.

~ R.a.delmonico

Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.

~ Raymond E. Feist

If there is no door open for me, I build a door

~ Hadi Farnoud

Feeling unlucky? Find opportunities, work your butts off and nail them!

~ Mustafa Saifuddin

That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.Fate. Luck. Chance.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.

~ Sally Koslow

Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!

~ James Hauenstein

I don't believe in luck, but rather destiny. And destiny comes when you chase opportunity, only then will you make your own path in life.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

~ Justin Taylor

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

~ Terry Pratchett

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

~ Michael J. Behe

The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves,Whose slightest action or inaction servesThe one great aim.Why, even Death stands still, And waits an hour sometimesFor such a will.

~ Ella Wilcox Wheeler

Motivation is a state of mind, just like discouragement.

~ Stephen Richards

Don’t waste your energy & time on things you cannot change, instead pray & change your luck.

~ Syed Mustafa Faraz Ahmad

Well, good luck,’ the Vietnam verbal tic...It was as though people couldn’t stop themselves from saying it, even when they actually meant to express the opposite wish, like, ‘Die, motherfucker.’ Usually it was only an uninhabited passage of dead language, sometimes it came out five times in a sentence, like punctuation, often it was spoken flat side up to telegraph the belief that there wasn’t any way out; tough shit, sin loi, smack it, good luck. Sometimes, though, it was said with such feeling and tenderness that it could crack your mask, that much love where there was so much war. Me too, every day, compulsively, good luck: to friends in the press corps going out on operations, to grunts I’d meet at firebases and airstrips, to the wounded, the dead and all the Vietnamese I ever saw getting fucked over by us and each other, less often but most passionately to myself, and though I meant it every time I said it, it was meaningless. It was like telling someone going out in a storm not to get any on him, it was the same as saying, ‘Gee, I hope you don’t get killed or wounded or see anything that drives you insane.’ You could make all the ritual moves, carry your lucky piece, wear your magic jungle hat, kiss your thumb knuckle smooth as stones under running water, the Inscrutable Immutable was still out there, and you kept on or not at its pitiless discretion. All you could say that wasn’t fundamentally lame was something like, ‘He who bites it this day is safe from the next,’ and that was exactly what nobody wanted to hear.

~ Michael Herr

Lie you easy, dream you light,And sleep you fast for aye;And luckier may you find the nightThan ever you found the day.

~ A.e. Housman

Shamrocks And roses In an ever green flock Now Up to your noses Turning into a high stock! People nice and seen All around you green! These lucky streams Realizing major dreams. In strives, when in pain Call oh call up my name, Know it isn't in vain...

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

You can make as many NAPS as you like, but unless they have clean language in the narration then you could well be sabotaging your own dreams!

~ Stephen Richards

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

~ Jonathan Stroud

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

~ Groucho Marx

Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The law of manifestation operates like a triangle: First, know what you want and visualize it as if you already had it; Second, see it behind the illusion of reality, practice it in your decisions, choose the people you hang out with, etc; Third, believe, have faith and work on your emotions to be at the right frequency. This triangle of manifestation is one of the secrets of many religions: Christianity, Scientology, and Freemasonry. In Masonry is seen as heart, mind and desire; in Scientology is perceived as reality, communication and affinity; in Christianity is understood as Father, son and holy ghost; basically, actions, learnings and emotions. In Christianity, the Father equals reality or the Creator of the illusion, the son is the way, the path, he road of our decisions and actions, and the holy ghost is our heart, instincts and desires manifested in that same path. In word words, through Jesus, and with the power of the holy ghost, you reach God. This is an allegory that not many Christians can understand. Jesus represent behavior - right and wrong, the holy ghost is our faith, your heart and emotions reflecting back at you what you attract, it's the energy that connects you to your dreams, and God represents the Architect of Reality. So, through moral behavior and positive emotions, your understand God and life, and then you receive paradise. This paradise is whatever you dream for yourself. Furthermore, if someone has shown you this way, he has been as an angel to you, a messenger of God; if someone stopped you from reaching it, he has been as a demon, a worker for Satan, the enemy, if you failed in seeing this path, you have redirected yourself towards hell. And if you hate your life, you are already in hell. If you want to get out of hell, you must accept the truth, and this truth is that you must know God, for He is the truth. He and the truth are one and the same.

~ Robin Sacredfire