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Quotes About Belief

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was home. "I hope Joe's home, knock on wood!"
~ Mitch Hedberg
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
~ Felix Dennis
In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.
~ Robertson Davies
I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.
~ Willie Geist
I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
~ Al Alvarez
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
~ Alice Hoffman
Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.
~ Anuj
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.
~ Jean Plaidy
With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.
~ John Steinbeck
Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.
~ Madonna Ciccone
The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.
~ Malcolm Godwin
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
~ Lucille Ball
Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.
~ Willis Turner
He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.
~ Michael Lee West, American Pie
Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.
~ Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
I don't think carrying an umbrella during monsoons is luck.
~ Daya Kudari
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
~ Anonymous
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!
~ Anonymous