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Quotes About Luck

My mother says, "It's not brains or good looks that a person needs, it's luck.
~ Sholom Aleichem
What do I care if the weather is sunny When I'm all out of luck and all out of money
~ Sholom Aleichem
I should have listened to my mother when she said, "Never throw your luck out with the dish-water …
~ Sholom Aleichem
Who says you need luck to be lucky?" my mother answered, looking at me. Search me what that means.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Now, even as you completed your conquest of Wife One, our friendship grew. It would outlast all my other friendships. It would bring me intense happiness. And I felt lucky; I had suffered, but unlike others I never got my heart broken. (Didn't you? a therapist once goaded me. Wife Two was not the only one who found something unhealthy about our relationship, not was the therapist the only one to wonder if it hadn't been a factor in my remaining single all these years.)
~ Sigrid Nunez
Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.
~ Sophocles
And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.
~ Sophocles
Your great good fortune, true, it was your ruin.
~ Sophocles
I, I count myself the son of Chance, the great goddess, giver of all good things— I'll never see myself disgraced.
~ Sophocles
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
~ George Clooney
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
~ Horace
Superstitions add texture to life.
~ Ilona Andrews
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
~ Jane Badler
Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?
~ Joan Crawford
I've been very lucky in my life.
~ Joe Gold
I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.
~ Joey Comeau
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
~ Ann Richards
We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted. I needed to go get it.
~ Kasie West, Lucky in Love
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don't do anything very strange!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet you!
~ Nabil Sabio Azadi
Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be 'set fair' that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.
~ John Bude
Every problem can be solved, you just have to work hard enough, or sometimes be lucky enough to find the solution.
~ Laurie W.J.N.