Luck Quotes

He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.

~ Michael Lee West

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

~ Randy Pausch

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

~ Joe Abercrombie

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

~ Dean Koontz

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

~ Jerry Spinelli

One makes one's own luck, but you have to give the universe the opportunity to help you.

~ Amish Tripathi

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

~ Carl Safina

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

~ Robert Koch

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

~ Laura Lippman

It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.

~ Markus Zusak

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

~ Donna Tartt

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he looked like that. He smiled. 'With luck we shall make it, and without luck we shall not.'

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

~ Marcia Clark

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

~ Robert Jordan

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

~ E.b. White

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

~ Jeanette Winterson

Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gimp and speech impediment, lived a long life doing pretty much what he wanted. He hadn't drawn the best of cards, but he'd played his hand darned well, so what was there to grieve over?

~ Jeannette Walls

A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Luck is a light bulb that is switched on only once, after it switches off, it leaves a gap of regret and powerlessness

~ Jasper Rules

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

~ Mary Stewart

That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth,Wednesday the best day of all,Thursday for crosses,Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

~ Folk Rhyme

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

~ Charles Bukowski

You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.

~ Margaret Atwood

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

~ Tom Shippey

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

~ Stephen King

I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

~ Sonya Bateman

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.

~ Elizabeth Berg

I’m so far from lucky, I’m kissing its ass from the other side.

~ Sonya Bateman

You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that-- it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.

~ Michelle Diener

Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence have had good luck. The former are better off than the latter in two respects only, whereas the poor but lucky man has the advantage in many ways; for though the rich have the means to satisfy their appetites and to bear calamities, and the poor have not, the poor, if they are lucky, are more likely to keep clear of trouble, and will have besides the blessings of a sound body, health, freedom from trouble, fine children, and good looks.Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word “happy” in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky.

~ Herodotus

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

~ Wally Lamb

They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work

~ Celso Cukierkorn

I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck

~ Rob Reger

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

~ Denzel Washington