Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
Tom Holt

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
Pierre Trudeau

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 is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball

Luck's always to blame.
Jean de La Fontaine

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
William Feather

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
Thomas Perry

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
A. J. Foyt

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Mark Warner

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
Brett Hull

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
Patty Duke

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
John Jakes

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
John Barrow

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
Carl Zuckmayer