Quotes About No Such Thing As Luck

#1. There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Joe Abercrombie

#2. In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend - only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

George Lucas

#3. My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes.

M.F. Moonzajer

#4. Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

Caprice Crane

#5. There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#6. Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Mark Twain

#7. There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.

Donald Trump

#8. There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty.
No such thing as luck when everything's certain.

Toba Beta

#10. There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#11. In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

George Lucas

#12. There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Amy Hempel

#13. Nothing happens by chance, my friend ... No such thing as luck.

Richard Bach

#14. There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

George S. Patton

#15. There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

Steve Harvey

#16. There is no such thing as luck, everything we take for granted is a gift & a blessing, most of us only realize its value upon its loss.

Brian Michael Good

#17. Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck

Guillermo Del Toro

#18. Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

Larry David

#19. And knowing my luck ... that'll be the Engineer sign for Your mom's a skank.

Karen Traviss

#20. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Robin Hobb

#21. Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article "The Luck Factor," says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same trees every day, eventually you're going to run out of fruit.

Shawn Achor

#22. I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

John Prine

#23. The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it ... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

Alain Juppe

#24. Oh, I am fortune's fool!

William Shakespeare

#25. I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

Robert Pattinson

#27. I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.

Joe Kelley

#28. Annika called back, "Never would I give my daughter to a dog." Good luck with that one, Lachlain.

Kresley Cole

#29. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

Arthur Hailey

#30. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Yann Martel

#31. I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

Danica McKellar

#32. Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Kurt Vonnegut

#33. Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

Richard Jeni

#34. I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

Carl Paladino

#35. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.

Robin Sacredfire

#36. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.

Majid Kazmi

#37. It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

Robert Breault

#38. Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

Irakli Okruashvili

#39. luck is not entirely about chance; it's about the human ability to spot opportunities and make the most out of them.

Ashwin Sanghi

#40. Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.

Steven Redhead

#41. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK

Elie Jerome

#42. Dale: "No, no
curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
- Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

Tamora Pierce

#43. 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

#44. Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

Peter Lindbergh

#45. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself. Help him, maybe, but not tell him what to do.

John Steinbeck

#46. While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

Tom Shippey

#47. I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

Hilary Swank

#48. I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

David Friedman

#49. Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

Oscar Wilde

#50. To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. 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

#52. Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.

Reginald Hill

#53. 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

#54. Somebody's on a man hunt. And she's accepting all applicants with a big wallet, a penis, and a beating heart. Good luck with that.

Kim Holden

#55. When bad luck comes around, your reaction to it is a combination of how bad the luck is plus how prepared your body is for the stress.

Anonymous

#56. Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

Mason Cooley

#57. I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.

Sonya Bateman

#58. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.

Jim Corbett

#59. He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Chanakya

#60. There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, their brains buzzing with pheromones.

Margaret Atwood

#61. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon

#62. I was discovering a hard truth: There's no way to catch up on sleep. When it's gone, it's gone, and the best you can hope for is to have better luck next time.

David Van Etten