Quotes About Luck

Luck is good planning, carefully executed.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

Each man's character shapes his fortunes.

Motivation triggers luck.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.