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Quotes About Luck

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.
~ Lee Child, Killing Floor
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
The champion makes his own luck.
~ Red Blaik
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
~ Howard Gardner
Luck is the residue of good planning.
~ David Ignatius
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
~ Mark Twain
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.
~ Paul Hawken
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
~ Mark Twain
I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.
~ Sarah Hughes
Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.
~ Fred Singer
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
~ Francine Pascal
It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.
~ Chloe Rose Lattanzi
A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!
~ Elise Broach
By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.
~ Richard Branson
Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.
~ Felix Rohatyn
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.
~ Mason Cooley
Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.
~ Venita VanCaspel
I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
~ D. B. Sweeney
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
~ Russell Banks
Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.
~ Cathy Cassidy