Quotes About Luck

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

Baseball has been very good to me.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.