If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Luis Bunuel

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

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Loretta Lynn

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Jacky Ickx

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
Kevin Eubanks

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
James Agee

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
Clyde Tombaugh

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
Alison Moyet

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank Howard Clark

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
Steve Jobs

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
Richard Linklater

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood

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

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Michael Korda

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston