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Luck Quotes
"No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot."
38
"Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise."
37
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
Luck,
15
"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."
9
"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not."
8
"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker."
8
"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
7
"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
6
"Luck marches with those who give their very best."
6
"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
6
"The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest."
5
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
5
"Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence."
5
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
5
"I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question."
5
"So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill."
5
"In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other."
5
"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
Luck,
5
"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
Luck,
4
"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
4
"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
4
"And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that."
Luck,
4
"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."
4
"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill."
4
"Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving."
4
"Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person."
4
"I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck.""
Luck,
4
"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
4
"I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in."
Luck,
4
"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."
Luck,
3
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