Sayings about Luck
What is bad luck for one man is good luck for another. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
Change yourself, and your luck will change. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Luck is loaned, not owned. ~ Norwegian Proverbs
Luck that lasts is always suspected. ~ Tibetan Proverbs
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him. ~ German Proverbs
You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it. ~ German Proverb
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~ Jewish Proverb
You can give a piece of advice, but not good luck along with that. ~ Norwegian Proverb
When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns. ~ Zambian Proverbs
When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double. ~ Yiddish Proverb
When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her. ~ Italian Proverb
When God throws the dice, they are loaded. ~ Greek Proverb
To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death. ~ Japanese Proverb
To be lucky you need a little wit. ~ Italian Proverb
Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Third time lucky. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so. ~ German Proverb
There is no luck except where there is discipline. ~ Irish Proverb
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good. ~ Russian Proverb
The more you know, the luckier you get. ~ Myanmar Proverb
The lucky fellow loses his wife; the unlucky fellow loses his horse. ~ Georgian Proverb
The luckiest dies in his cradle. ~ Turkish Proverb
The luck of idle men sits next to them. ~ Romanian Proverb
The day you decide to do it is your lucky day. ~ Japanese Proverb
Substance is not enough, accident is also required. ~ Italian Proverb
Seven trades but no luck. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die. ~ Traditional Proverb
Parents can give their children everything except good luck. ~ Yiddish Proverb
One ounce of good luck is better than a ton of brains. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Nothing falls from heaven. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love. ~ Traditional Proverb
Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within. ~ Danish Proverb
Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it. ~ German Proverb
Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Swedish Proverb
Luck is the residue of design. ~ Arabian Proverb
Luck is the idol of the idle. ~ Traditional Proverb
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth. ~ Japanese Proverb
Luck is infatuated with the efficient. ~ Persian Proverb
It is better to be born lucky than rich. ~ Traditional Proverb
In bad luck, hold out; in good luck, hold in. ~ German Proverb
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. ~ Russian Proverb
If you are looking for bad luck, you will soon find it. ~ Japanese Proverb
If bad luck is asleep you must not awaken it. ~ German Proverb
He that has the luck leads the bride to church. ~ Dutch Proverb
Guests bring good luck with them. ~ Kurdish Proverb
Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tide. ~ Irish Proverb
Good luck beats early rising. ~ Irish Proverb
Good looking and good luck don’t always walk the same road. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
Go and wake up your luck. ~ Persian Proverb
Fortune is with you for an hour and against you for ten! ~ Arabian Proverb
Each man’s character shapes his fortunes. ~ Latin Proverb
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Bad luck is fertile. ~ Russian Proverb
Bad luck for one man is good luck for another. ~ African Proverb
After bad luck comes good fortune. ~ Gypsy Proverb
A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person. ~ Turkish Proverb
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes. ~ Greek Proverb
Sayings
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it. ~ Author Unknown
Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow. ~ Author Unknown
The wise don’t expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. ~ Author Unknown
Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. ~ Author Unknown
Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~ Author Unknown
Luck is good planning, carefully executed. ~ Author Unknown
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it. ~ Author Unknown
Luck is a disease for which hard work is the only remedy. ~ Author Unknown
Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don’t depend on it. ~ Author Unknown
Good luck is the twin brother of hard work. ~ Author Unknown
Good luck is often with the man who doesn’t include it in his plans. ~ Author Unknown
Good luck is a lazy man’s estimate of a worker’s success. ~ Author Unknown
Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck. ~ Author Unknown
Quotations about Luck
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes. ~ Natasha Josefowitz
A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Luck is what a capricious man believes in. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get. ~ Sam Shoen
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control. ~ Natasha Josefowitz
I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Luck is not the hand of God…. Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what opportunity is and what isn’t. ~ Lucille Ball
I find I’m luckier when I work harder. ~ Dr. Denton Cooley
Good and bad luck is but a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. ~ Paul Chatfield
Luck. Take a second look at what appears to be someone’s “good luck.” You’ll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking. ~ David J. Schwartz
I think the harder you work the more luck you have. ~ David Thomas
The lucky have whole days which still they choose; the unlucky have but hours, and those they lose. ~ John Dryden
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn’t involved in his success is deluding himself. ~ Arthur Hailey
To believe in luck… is skepticism. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~ Langston Coleman
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it. ~ Henry Moore
People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ~ Anne Tyler
You don’t just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. ~ Barbara Bush
Luck is believing you’re lucky. ~ Tennessee Williams
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ~ Mary Pickford
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned. ~ Emily Dickinson
Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else. ~ David Levien
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it. ~ Brandon Mull
Motivation triggers luck. ~ Mike Wallace
Luck is everything…. My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film. ~ Alfred Hitchcock
Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues. ~ James Vila Blake
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. ~ Brian Tracy
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general…. They win battles, and they make me lucky. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I’ve had bad luck and I’ve had good and neither one lasted long enough to dry spit. ~ Jo Clayton
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. ~ Josh Billings
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. ~ B.C. Forbes
Luck is a discernible, if mysterious, pattern of influences on your life path. ~ David Kennedy
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ~ Ray Kroc
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~Jean Cocteau
Lucky people are usually bad players when it comes to correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when chance backs up their vice or folly. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks. ~ Christy Mathewson
No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle. ~ Margaret Atwood
Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it. ~ Vera Nazarian
I always think luck‘s a bit like splitting a log. You’re much more likely to succeed if you read the grain and look for flaw-lines. ~ K.J.Parker
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal. ~ Felix Dennis
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle. ~ Chuang Tzu
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. ~ Robertson Davies
You can create your own luck just like a cloud can create its own rain. You create your own luck by the way you act, think, feel, and talk. ~ Mark Benedict
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Get as much experience as you can, so that you’re ready when luck works. That’s the luck. ~ Henry Fonda
I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
You’ve got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn’t go around looking for a stumblebum. ~ Darrell Royal
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. ~ Ignazio Silone
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~ Flora Whittemore
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don’t believe in fate. It’s luck, timing and accident. ~ Mery Griffin
The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. ~ James B. Hill
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause. ~ John Dryden
Luck relies on chance, labor on character. ~ Richard Cobden
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck. ~ John Jakes
Hope nothing from. Luck; and the probability is that you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed that all shallow observers will call you lucky. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck. ~ James Fixx
They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good. ~ Rico Carty
I’ve had bad luck and I’ve had good and neither one lasted long enough to dry spit. ~ Jo Clayton
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it. ~ Patrick Dewitt
The powerless worship Luck and Fate. ~ Mason Cooley
I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion. ~ Rex Stout
Luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in executing the correct course of action. ~ R.A.Salvatore
Luck marches with those who give their very best. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky. ~ Katharine Hepburn
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
The harder you work, the luckier you get. ~ Gary Player
All psychological studies indicate that a person’s luck is influenced by his state of mind. ~ June Sawyer
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity. ~ Federico Fellini
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. ~ George S. Clason
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck. ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ~ James A. Garfield
Luck’s always to blame. ~ Jean De La Fontaine
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. ~ Dr. Armand Hammer
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~ Bret Harte
You know what luck is? Luck is believing you’re lucky…. ~ Tennessee Williams
When it comes to luck you make your own. ~ Bruce Springsteen
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. ~ John Dewey
Since luck’s a nine days’ wonder, wait their end. ~ Euripides
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in life is luck. ~ Donald Trump
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ~ Oprah Winfrey
When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there. ~ Cervantes
Don’t you know by now, luck don’t lead to anything or why you keep on moving. ~ Steve Winwood
Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. ~ Larry King
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ~ Hector Berlioz
Luck cannot change birth. ~ Horace
You don’t have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you. ~ Garrison Keillor
Luck is tenacity of purpose. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned. ~ Frank A. Clark
Luck is the savior for the few but a demon for the masses. ~ Michael Titorenk
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it — and a greater fool if you count upon it. ~ Phyllis Bottome
In the queer mess of human destiny, the determining factor is luck. ~ William E. Woodward
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody’s door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? ~ Jean Cocteau
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny. ~ Euripides
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment; it is possible to “make” your luck by being always prepared. ~ Michael Korda
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Good luck needs no explanation. ~ Shirley Temple Black
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more of it I have. ~ Stephen Leacock
Luck, be a lady tonight. ~ Frank Loesser
A rabbit’s foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Good luck is the willing handmaid of an upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ~ James Russell Lowell
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. ~ Brian Tracy
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ~ Elmer G. Letterman
The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run. ~ Marquis de Racan
I don’t believe in luck. We make our own good fortune. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. ~ Douglas Macarthur
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~ Harry Golden
There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don’t know how to use it. ~ Rocky Aoki
Luck is being ready for the chance. ~ J. Frank Doble
Luck never made a man wise. ~ Seneca
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. ~ B.C. Forbes
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. ~ Barbara Sher
Secrets of Lucky People: A Study of the Laws of Good Luck. ~ Book preview