Luck Quotes

There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or foolish or simply unlucky.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen.

~ Toba Beta

About Hollywood.I feel like it’s a big ocean, full of bottom feeders, midlevel fish, the occasional shark, and some wonderful savvy whales, the elders, and the ones who guide you on your way. If you’re lucky enough, you get to be a dolphin and have your waves broken by the passage of these elders before you, but at the same time, you get an occasional shark bite in the tail and maybe one of the bottom feeders comes up and takes a little nibble. But I see myself as cresting a series of waves, dipping down, sometimes, lower than I’d like, but mainly kind of happily staying above. (smiles and takes a long drag of her cigarette) And, of course, I try to avoid the fishnets.

~ Anjelica Huston

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

~ Bill Watterson

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

~ Anchee Min

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

~ Terry Pratchett

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

~ Brandon Mull

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

~ Alice Hoffman

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

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

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

~ Terry Pratchett

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

~ Ernest Hemingway

What’s so funny? (Astrid)I’m just thinking, here I am a slave who touched a star who then made him a demigod. I have to be the luckiest bastard who ever lived. (Zarek)

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

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. (Talon Karrde)

~ Timothy Zahn

All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and then the luck, the bad luck will come and everything we are, all that we can ever be, all the Einsteins and babies and love and hate, all the joy and sadness and sex and wanting and liking and disliking, all the soft summer breezes on cheeks and first snowflakes, all the Van Goghs and Rembrandts and Mozarts and Mahlers and Thomas Jeffersons and Lincolns and Ghandis and Jesus Christs, all the Cleopatras and lovemaking and riches and achievements and progress, all of that, every single damn thing that we are or ever will be is dependent on six inches of topsoil and the fact that the rain comes when it's needed and does not come when it is not needed; everything, every...single...thing comes with that luck.

~ Gary Paulsen

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

~ Lloyd Alexander

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.

~ Anthony Doerr

Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?”“Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.

~ Ann Aguirre

I've learned to feel good when I feel good.it's better to be driven around in a red porschethan to ownone. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

~ Charles Bukowski

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

~ Lemony Snicket

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

~ Vera Nazarian

Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of such ideas as her luck has run out and He is due. That does not happen. For what it's worth, a good streak doesn't jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

~ Ian Fleming

Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

~ S.d. Crockett

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.

~ Bill Maher

Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.

~ Kiera Cass

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.

~ Elena Ferrante

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared

~ Ian Fleming

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.

~ Roald Amundsen

Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.

~ Ben Jonson

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

~ Jack Youngblood

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

~ John Fowles