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Quotes About Luck

Go and wake up your luck.
~ Persian Proverb
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
~ Frank Wedekind
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~ Jane Austen
Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.
~ Honore de Balzac
I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.
~ Paul Auster
Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.
~ Folk Rhyme
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first divorced me and the second won't.
~ Anonymous
Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.
~ Gautama Buddha
When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
~ William Shakespeare
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
~ Mark Twain
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Shallow men believe in luck.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
~ Gary Cooper
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
~ Joseph Conrad
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
~ W. C. Fields
A real man makes his own luck.
~ Billy Zane
A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.
~ Zedd
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
~ Clifton Fadiman
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
~ C. S. Forester
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
~ Lew Wallace
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
~ Samuel Smiles