Quotes About Luck

#1. There was something particularly American about it--blaming yourself for bad luck--that resistance to seeing your life as affected by social forces, a tendency to attribute larger problems to individual behavior. The ugly reverse of the American Dream.

Philipp Meyer

#2. He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

Colin Montgomerie

#3. I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

Cillian Murphy

#4. First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

Barry Manilow

#5. If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.

Ron Conway

#7. I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.

John Gokongwei

#8. I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

Cornelia Funke

#9. People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.

Richard Koch

#10. A plaque at the door congratulated her for climbing 1,860 individual stairs, and she nodded as she caught her breath. "Just my luck," she gasped. "I'm going to have the best glutes left in the planet, and there nobody here to see them.

Dan Wells

#11. Good luck and the eternal interlinked cycle of life crap.

Kate Griffin

#12. This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative ... be outrageous!

Ray Davies

#13. Go with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. Hades feeds on doubt and hopelessness. He will trick you if he can, make you mistrust your own judgment. Once you are in his realm, he will never willingly let you leave. Keep faith. Good luck, Percy Jackson.

Rick Riordan

#14. I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.

A.A. Bell

#15. I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go 'here's the film I want to do' and everyone runs around. I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.

Henry Rollins

#16. The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

Peter Shilton

#17. No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Luck never made a man wise.

Seneca The Younger

#19. Break me into pieces,
Small enough to fit
In the palm of your hand, baby.
I never thought that you would save me,
break a piece
for your friends
break a piece
just for luck
break a piece
sell it sell it
break me break me.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

Jeanette Winterson

#21. The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

Susan Ertz

#22. I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

Nicolas Cage

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

Baltasar Gracian

#24. You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.

Michael Frayn

#25. Sometimes, when your luck shifts, it does it so freaking loud that it jars your bones. I was determined not to get my hopes up crazy high, not about the barn and not about anything else either. But my bones? They fucking sang.

Eli Easton

#26. It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox

Shelby Foote

#27. Personal responsibility for everything is the hallmark of an enlightened being. If you blame others, bad luck or the Universe/God for your difficulties, you clearly do not understand the Principle of Oneness. You are in charge and responsible for everything. Embrace your power and make no excuses.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#28. Luck is everything ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Alfred Hitchcock

#29. Good luck,"
Travis grabbed my shoulders and planted a kiss on my lips. He pulled away quickly, nodding once. "That's all the luck I need.

Jamie McGuire

#30. Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

Mark Twain

#31. Oh yeah. Well, good luck, I've heard Selah's a total asshole. I

Rachel Hollis

#32. If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

Christopher Lambert

#33. To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

Clive Cussler

#34. All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.

Kevin Kwan

#35. To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necessity of recognizing opportunity then seizing it when it stuck.

Joseph G. Peterson

#36. Don't depend on luck to solve problems.

Kim Kyu-jong

#37. I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

Margaret Atwood

#38. I speak this way because I know how perilous speech can be ... A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.

Galen Beckett

#39. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

#40. It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck

Jacob Zuma

#41. Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself.

Manasa Rao

#42. Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.

Max O'Rell

#43. Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?

Justin Cronin

#44. I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Michelle Hunziker

#45. Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

John Glover

#46. In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

Naomi Wolf

#47. If you believe in "luck", always let it be good luck.
Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless".
Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

Donald L. Hicks

#48. Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?

Tara Ford

#49. I don't believe in luck.'

'Then it's for blessings. God gives us children in blessings. It's never by chance.'

- Charisse & Nevada, Ch. 33

Sylvia Hubbard

#50. K.T. sighs. If you mess with her head, I'll personally hunt you down, but otherwise, good luck. If you can get her to talk, you're a freaking miracle worker. Hell, if you can get her to actually smile, her parents might throw you a party.

Erica Cameron

#51. It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.

Damian Marley

#52. Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Jane Espenson

#53. Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.'

Alexander Ludwig

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

Thomas Hood

#55. It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

John Le Carre

#56. It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.

Philippa Gregory

#57. This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name.

Mike Shinoda

#58. Family's the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that's where the spine and heart come in.

Nora Roberts

#59. Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

#60. One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

Robert Rhodes James

#61. To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#62. As ill-luck would have it.

Miguel De Cervantes

#63. As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Dexter Fletcher

#64. Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Stephen King

#65. I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

James Alan Gardner

#66. The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

Kate Reardon

#67. If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.

Denis Johnson

#68. Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

Nick Nolte

#69. While other dot-coms merged or perished, Amazon survived through a combination of conviction, improvisation, and luck.

Brad Stone

#70. We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only really changed was our luck. Put us in the same circumstances as our previous folly and suddenly we'd revert, all of us, to what we were. That's what I believed

William Lashner

#71. Leave your luck while still winning.

Baltasar Gracian

#72. Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

Chuck Norris

#73. Good luck, boys! This time we take 'em!

Robert A. Heinlein

#74. Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.

Margaret Atwood

#75. It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#76. Full moon calls thee
Shai-hulud shall thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round
Luck with us will then abound,
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground.

Frank Herbert

#77. Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

George S. Clason

#78. Please, dear brother, do much more with that Bible of yours besides carry it for luck. It will bring you no such luck. But if opened, it will bring you life.

A.M. Heath

#79. Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

Niels Bohr

#80. Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

Stefano Gabbana

#81. So it begins, this story, like everything else - with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.

Gregory David Roberts

#82. It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer my own enemy. Depression is the enemy. The monster lives at my gate. My hope is that, with sufficient effort and luck, I can keep it there.

Sally Brampton

#83. So, we wait until tomorrow night, and when you say the word, I cross over and haul you both out. Right? That's it?" "With any luck, yes." Luck? We were depending on luck? Nash is so screwed ...

Rachel Vincent

#84. No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Jodi Picoult

#85. When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

Grant Heslov

#86. My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.

Gwenda Bond

#87. People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.

Jack McDevitt

#88. I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

David Walliams

#89. What does eminent domain mean?" Stewart asked. "It means you're shit out of luck," Ross said.

Ron Rash

#90. Health is not luck.
We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

Joel Fuhrman

#91. Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

Marge Piercy

#92. John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.

Jay Leno

#93. Good luck hitting a skinny little schooner cutting through the waves bound for fortune and glory."
"I'll quote you on that when a cannonball lands in my lap," said Nina.

Leigh Bardugo

#94. ... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

Louisa May Alcott

#95. I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Howard Schultz

#96. What a prick! Isn't this just my luck?

Anonymous

#97. Some people have luck, and everything comes out right with them; others have none, and never a thing turns out fortunately.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#98. Luck, be a lady tonight.

Frank Loesser

#99. It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.

Harrison Ford

#100. 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