Luck Quotes

Luck's always to blame.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

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

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

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

In short, Luck's always to blame.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

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.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

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.

Care and diligence bring luck.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.