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Quotes About Fortune

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.
~ James Alan Fox
I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.
~ James Alan Gardner
Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.
~ Jane Espenson
I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.
~ Jean Plaidy
I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.
~ January Jones
It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
~ John le Carre
Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
~ John le Carre
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.
~ John Steinbeck
I still have horrible luck with girls.
~ Jonathan Bennett
...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.
~ Langston Hughes
I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
~ Stephen King
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
~ Mark Twain
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.
~ Amy Neftzger, The Ferryman
Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.
~ Sally Koslow
When Fortune knocks, open the door, ' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
~ Margi Preus, West of the Moon
luck is distributed at six in the morning
~ Luis Zamarro Fraile
He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
I am not sure if some people are luckier than others, but one thing's sure: right place, right time, you can define it however you want, some people get more opportunities than others.
~ Daya Kudari
People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky .
~ Muhammad Saqib