Quotes About Luck

When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.

Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone.

Get as much experience as you can, so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

The long arm of coincidence.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Every dog must have his day.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.

Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.