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Quotes About Luck

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
~ Dorothy Parker
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
~ Douglas Adams
Luck is the last refuge of the incompetent,
~ Douglas E. Richards
Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long," said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.
~ Douglas E. Richards
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).
~ Douglas Hofstadter
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE way happenstance governs so much of human existence. Never underestimate how being in a certain place at a certain time changes the entire trajectory of things for you. Never underestimate the way we are all hostages to life's random rhythms.
~ Douglas Kennedy
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.
~ Dr. Seuss
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
~ Dr. Seuss
Be grateful you're not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn't a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you're a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I
~ Dr. Seuss
You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
~ Dr. Seuss
Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
~ Dr. Seuss
Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.
~ Drake
A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never be taken for granted! I am lucky that I got dealt some cards that showed me what it's like to not have family, and I am much luckier to now have the chance to create my own deck!
~ Drew Barrymore
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
~ Duffy Daugherty
I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
~ Robert Brault
I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.
~ Ronda Rousey
The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.
~ Arian Foster
Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
~ Valentino Garavani
Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
~ Robert De Niro
The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
~ L. Frank Baum
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If the shoe fits you're lucky.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
~ Mark Billingham
My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
~ Albert Camus