quotations about luck
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
BALTHASAR GRACIAN
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Quote Junkie: Philosophy Edition
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
What's Bred in the Bone
Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.
LOUIS NIZER
attributed, Great Sayings and Quotations
Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Luck whines; labor whistles.
SAMUEL SMILES
Thrift
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
BIBLE
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDY
The Mayor of Castorbridge
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
MARGI PREUS
West of the Moon
When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.
SPANISH PROVERB
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Twelve Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects
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.
IAN FLEMING
Casino Royale
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
EURIPIDES
The Suppliant Women
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
AURELIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Luck is a disease for which hard work is the only remedy.
ANONYMOUS
Paint, Oil and Drug Review, 1897
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
DUTCH PROVERB
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merry Wives of Windsor
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
FELIX DENNIS
How to Get Rich
Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
It's hard to detect good luck -- it looks so much like something you've earned.
FRANK A. CLARK
attributed, Quote Unquote