quotations about luck
Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.
PETER REDGROVE
The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
Luck and ill luck are neighbors.
NORWEGIAN PROVERB
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU
attributed, Forbes, 1985
Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Success is just a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON
attributed, Quips, Quotes & Queries
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Maxims of James Abram Garfield
Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
KURT VONNEGUT
The Sirens of Titan
Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Luck can only get you so far.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I'm very lucky. The only time I was ever up shit creek, I just happened to have a paddle with me.
GEORGE CARLIN
Brain Droppings
Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.
FRANKLIN JONES
attributed, Great Sayings and Quotations
The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
WILL CUPPY
How to Attract the Wombat
As for luck, wait in your bed.
JAPANESE PROVERB
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
Just my luck! When my ship came in, I was stuck at the airport!
MAX KAUFFMANN
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
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
Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.
JOAN LOWERY NIXON
In the Face of Danger
Luck simply means rising at six in the morning.
ANONYMOUS
Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries, May 10, 1902
As ill-luck would have it ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.
SAKURA TSUKUBA
Land of the Blindfolded