Luck Quotes

Good luck has its storms.

~ George Lucas

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

~ William Feather

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

~ James Cash Penney

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

~ Frank Sinatra

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

~ Jamie Oliver

Care and diligence bring luck.

~ Thomas Fuller

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

~ James A. Garfield

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

~ Jean Cocteau

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

~ Dave Thomas

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

~ H. Jackson Brown

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

~ Ovid

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

~ Richard Linklater

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

~ Baltasar Gracián

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

~ E. W. Howe

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

~ Charles Kuralt

Some folk want their luck buttered.

~ Thomas Hardy

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

~ Richard Cobden

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

~ B. C. Forbes

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

~ Barbara Sher

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

~ Danica Mckellar

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

~ James Norton

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

~ Hillary Clinton

Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.

~ Richard Corliss

My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.

~ Dana Perino

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

~ Selma Blair

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

~ Lee Trevino

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

~ Frank Wedekind

Art depends on luck and talent.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

~ Hope Davis

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

~ Brian Tracy

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

~ Julie Bowen

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

~ Steve Jobs

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

~ James Weldon Johnson

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

~ Twyla Tharp