Luck Quotes

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean

Try, Around, Once

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

Good, Stupid, Bad

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid

Fish, Expect, Hook

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

Smile, Sense, Ability

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
Robert Orben

General, Bust, Corporal

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.
George Sanders

Good, Long, Bored

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
Jennifer Aniston

Here, Computer, Illiterate

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
Howard Schultz

Life, Future, Vision

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez

Love, Mind, Hard

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

Life, Good, Fear

In short, Luck's always to blame.
Jean de La Fontaine

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley

Bad, Kids, Grown

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King

Themselves, Kidding, Succeeded

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

Education, Sometimes, Getting

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
Mike Wallace

Good, True, Night

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Time, Good, Sure

Luck's always to blame.
Jean de La Fontaine

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Jean Cocteau

Success, Else, Dislike

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson

Success, Failure, Matter

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
Timothy Zahn

Change, Rock, Sense

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush

Whether, Step, Build

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

Whether, Step, Build

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.
Daniel Radcliffe

Work, Hard, Possible

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
Brian Eno

Dreams, Night, Whole

Good luck is a residue of preparation.
Jack Youngblood

Art depends on luck and talent.
Francis Ford Coppola

Art, Talent, Depends

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
Susannah York

Life, Love, Best

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
Matthew Macfadyen

Life, Work, Yourself

I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
Kristen Stewart

Crazy, Bad, Both

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt

Good, Worship, Heroes

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