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Quotes About Luck

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?
~ Richard Wagner
To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do ya' feel lucky, punk?
~ Clint Eastwood
I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.
~ Li-Young Lee
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
~ Patty Duke
If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.
~ Chris LeDoux
Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.
~ George S. Clason
The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali
~ Salvador Dali
I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
~ Jack Canfield
The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck
~ Conrad Hilton
Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving
~ Steve Winwood
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
~ Gene Tierney
In short, luck's always to blame.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
The luck will alter and the star will rise.
~ John Masefield
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.
~ Julie Bowen
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
~ William Feather
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
~ Sam Shepard
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.
~ Casey Stengel
That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
~ Joan Leslie