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Quotes About Luck

I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.
~ Sigmar Polke
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
~ Babe Ruth
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
~ Virginia Graham
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.
~ Voltaire
I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.
~ Christopher Plummer
People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians.
~ Narendra Modi
Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.
~ Jackie Stewart
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
~ Joel Chandler Harris
I wish you luck with a capital F.
~ Elvis Costello
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Good luck and good timing are the same thing.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.
~ Paul Halmos
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
~ Earl Nightingale
There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
~ Unknown
To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
~ Richard P. Feynman
A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.
~ Kevin VanDam
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
~ Seneca the Younger
Art depends on luck and talent.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
~ Arthur Hailey
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
~ Bernard Baruch
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
~ Derek Walcott