Luck Quotes

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Paulo Coelho

I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. I sometimes struggle against luck, the glory of mastering it makes me master it gaily; whereas I am sometimes surfeited in the midst of good fortune.

Blaise Pascal

Luck is for suckers.

John Green

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Paul Hawken

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Robert Doisneau

Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb

Luck is being ready for the chance.

J. Frank Doble

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James Garfield

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

Ernest Hemingway

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

Baltasar Gracian

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Baltasar Gracian

When a man had deserved his good luck, it was the part of his neighbors to wish him joy.

George Eliot

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

John Dewey

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

John Webster

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Ernest Hemingway

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Sam Shoen

Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. He's lucky, an envious person remarks. He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor. In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called luck usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by pull, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

Kenneth Hildebrand