Quotes About Good Luck And Bad Luck

#1. What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Sakura Tsukuba

#2. The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person's existence.

William Boyd

#3. Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Thucydides

#4. Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

Virginia Graham

#5. Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Lee Trevino

#6. To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#7. A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

Joanne Harris

#8. Bean Throwing Day (Japan): Usually February 3 or q,. A day to toss away your bad luck and welcome good fortune. Try making a bean salad, then plant at least one of the beans in the earth near your home for providence all year.
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Patricia J. Telesco

#9. The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

#10. We drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

Charles Bukowski

#11. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

#12. But that's the trouble with a drunk: if he gets excited he drinks too much, if he gets bored he drinks too much, if he has good luck he drinks too much, if he has bad luck he drinks too much, and so on.

Charles Bukowski

#13. Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

August Wilson

#14. Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds
and not bad ones either, for that matter. We can, any of us, be laid low, cut down, diminished, destroyed.

Therese Anne Fowler

#15. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

John Lyman Chatfield

#17. Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

John Steinbeck

#18. I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.

Andrew Luck

#19. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.
Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.
Freedom of choice is predetermined.
Don't believe anything you read!

L. Anthony

#20. That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#21. I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

Anais Nin

#22. Luck is personal; we all have our own. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but it's yours, and it follows you wherever you go...And luck can change, because as my nana always insisted, luck was a state of mind.

Lynne Matson

#23. So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Boethius

#24. Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad - they're all constructs of your mind.

Tom Bergeron

#25. Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Mark Twain

#26. It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

Laura Lippman

#27. Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

Karen Russell

#28. Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.
Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

Michael Flynn

#29. I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#30. Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad

Michael Mauboussin

#31. A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Thomas Hood

#32. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.

Heinrich Boll

#33. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

George Eliot

#34. Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

Al Siebert

#35. When something bad happens to us, something good happens - often to someone else. And that's The Good Luck of Right Now. We must believe it. We must. We must. We must.

Matthew Quick

#36. Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

Daya Kudari

#37. Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Joel Greenblatt

#39. God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many prayers and good deeds we offer. What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned. In

Harold S. Kushner

#40. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Jean Van Hamme

#41. I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

Eddie Huang

#42. Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.

David Letterman

#43. A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

Bertrand Russell

#44. Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

#45. Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#46. Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

James Vila Blake

#47. It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#48. I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Jack Nicklaus

#49. I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck

Rob Reger

#50. Maybe, I thought- reaching in the bag, taking out a stack of money and looking it over- maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first.

Donna Tartt

#51. Life is unfair, princess. Bad things happen to good people. Lady Luck is a motherfucking bitch. But we keep our chins up. We don't give up. We don't surrender. And we come back swinging.

Elle Aycart

#52. A challenge to your bad luck is your confidence. Your confidence, you and your patience is your good luck.

Dhiraj Das

#53. Ain't that the way of the world, now? Good luck turns bad. Bad luck turns good. Just a big rolling craps game played between this world and the next, and we the dice getting tossed around.

Libba Bray

#54. He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

Stephen Dobyns

#55. Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

Rohit Shetty

#56. 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

#57. We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters

Joe Abercrombie

#58. Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Faith Baldwin

#59. Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Amy Neftzger

#60. According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

Hannah Arendt

#61. 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

#62. MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don't believe in luck. Good or bad.

Hillary DePiano

#63. I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.

Marshall Brickman

#64. That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.

William Boyd

#65. Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

William Feather