quotations about luck
I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
REX STOUT
Might As Well Be Dead
No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
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
Essays
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
ANNE TYLER
Celestial Navigation
The lucky or successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and self-confident, you will act successful. Define your goal or end result. Picture it to yourself clearly and vividly. Then simply capture the feeling you would experience if the desirable goal were already an established fact. Then your internal machinery is geared for success: to guide you in making the correct muscular motions and adjustments; to supply you with creative ideas, and to do whatever else is necessary in order to make the goal an accomplished fact.
MAXWELL MALTZ
Psychocybernetics
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Shallow men believe in luck ... strong men believe in cause and effect.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
The greatest advice that good luck has for you is this: "Do not look for me. I will find you."
MARK BENEDICT
The Method of Selling: Your Key to Successful Sales with Over 70 Creative Selling Techniques
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
No Country for Old Men
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
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
All psychological studies indicate that a person's luck is influenced by his state of mind.
JUNE SAWYER
Weekly World News, Jan. 26, 1999
Put P before the word "Luck" and you have the password to the attainment of all your desires.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"What Is Luck?", Human Life from Many Angles
Luck is the savior for the few but a demon for the masses.
MICHAEL TITORENKO
Verses for the Down and Out
Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.
DAVID LEVIEN
City of the Sun
Luck never gives; it only lends.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Good luck is the twin brother of hard work.
ANONYMOUS
Paint, Oil and Drug Review, 1897
Luck is looking for a needle in a haystack and coming out with the farmer's daughter.
PHYLLIS MARTIN
Quips, Quotes and Savvy Sayings
Luck makes friends.
OVID
attributed, Day's Collacon
I've had bad luck and I've had good and neither one lasted long enough to dry spit.
JO CLAYTON
Diadem from the Stars
Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.
JACKIE STEWART
attributed, Reflections on Success