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Quotes About Luck

Luck is a light bulb that is switched on only once, after it switches off, it leaves a gap of regret and powerlessness
~ Jasper Rules
In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.
~ Nabil Basma
Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation
~ Nabil Basma
Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
~ Arab proverb
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
~ Gipsy Proverb
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
~ Alice James
You've been inexpressibly lucky, " he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing
~ Naomi Novik, Uprooted
We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work
~ Celso Cukierkorn
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
Care and diligence bring luck.
~ Thomas Fuller
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
~ Ovid
Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.
~ Marian Erickson
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
~ John Webster
In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.
~ William E. Woodward
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.
~ Merv Griffin
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
~ Anonymous
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.
~ Anonymous
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!
~ Anonymous
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
~ Amelia Barr
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.
~ Phyllis Bottome
The worst cynicism a belief in luck.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.
~ Anais Nin