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Quotes About Luck

Good luck has its storms.
~ George Lucas
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
~ Hillary Clinton
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
~ Bryan Cranston
Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.
~ Twyla Tharp
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
~ Richard Cobden
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
~ Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
~ Jesse Jackson
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
~ E. M. Forster
Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.
~ James Cook
I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
~ Marat Safin
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
~ Thomas Hood
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
~ William Shakespeare
Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.
~ Michael Bay
Luck, be a lady tonight.
~ Frank Loesser
Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
~ Niels Bohr
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.
~ Tris Speaker
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck. Generally speaking, an idea is an impulse of thought that impels action
~ Napoleon Hill
From this statement, you will understand that the subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune," or "bad luck.
~ Napoleon Hill
one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true! Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.
~ Napoleon Hill
Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb