quotations about luck
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
As ill-luck would have it ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
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
Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
Watch out w'en you're gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
"Plantation Proverbs", Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
Luck simply means rising at six in the morning.
ANONYMOUS
Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries, May 10, 1902
The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but taken them -- besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.
FRANKLIN JONES
attributed, Great Sayings and Quotations
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
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.
AUSONIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Just my luck! When my ship came in, I was stuck at the airport!
MAX KAUFFMANN
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations
Bad luck comes and goes ... but I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, "It's destiny!"
JEAN VAN HAMME
Dutch Connection
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
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Pilgrims
God is a father; luck is a stepfather.
YIDDISH PROVERB
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
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
Lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA
The Exiled Queen
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDY
The Mayor of Castorbridge