Luck Quotes

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. – Author Unknown

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”  – John Quincy Adams

“When a man’s willing and eager, the gods join in.” Aeschylus

“Chance favors those in motion.”  James H. Austin

“Good luck needs no explanation.” Shirley Temple Black

“The champion makes his own luck.” Red Blaik

“To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.” Edward de Bono

“It is hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you have earned.”  Frank A. Clark

“Men of action are favored by the Goddess of Luck.” – George S. Clason

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”;Jean Cocteau

“All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck, who keeps right on going, is the man who is there when the good luck comes, and is ready to receive it.” Robert Collier

“Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you’re only looking for a lucky break.” Monta Crane

“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

“Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.” Democritus

“Luck is not chance- It is toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”  Emily Dickinson.

“Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world the lucky person passes for a genius.” – Euripedes

“God does not play dice with the universe” Albert Einstein.

“The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.” W. C. Fields

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” Jean De La Fontaine

“Luck’s always to blame.” Jean de la Fontaine

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” Benjamin Franklin

“Luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it.” Samuel Goldwyn

“When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.”  Dr. Armand Hammer

“Some folk want their luck buttered. Thomas Hardy

“Life is a lottery that we’ve already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.” Louise L. Hay

“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.”  Katharine Hepburn

“Some people have all the luck, and they are the ones who never depend on it.”  Bob Ingham

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson

“Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.” Erica Jong

“Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.” Larry King

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” Ray Kroc

“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?” Stanislaw J. Lec

“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.” Og Mandino

“Our mistakes don’t make or break us – if we’re lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re really made of.” Donn Moomaw

“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.” P.J. O’Rourke

“Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.” Ovid

“A man on a date wonders if he’ll get lucky. The woman already knows.” Monica Piper

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” Proverb

“The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.”  Japanese Proverb

“When luck enters, give him a seat!” Jewish Proverb

“No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck” German Proverb

“Luck never gives; it only lends.” Swedish Proverb

“With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.” Yiddish Proverb

“Luck is the residue of design.” Branch Rickey

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Darrell Royal

“Call it luck, smart work, random chance, or call it the meeting of preparation and chance; whatever you call it, why not seek to have more of it?”  Mary Scott

“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” – William Shakespeare.

“Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.”  R. E. Shay.

“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

“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

“Everything in life is luck.”  Donald Trump

“Fortune sides with him who dares.” Virgil

“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” Orson Welles

“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” E.B. White

“Luck is believing you’re lucky.” Tennessee Williams

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” Oprah Winfrey

“One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline – and that is the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with your luck.” Carl Zuckmeyer