Luck Quotes

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

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

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.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

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.

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.

Everything in life is luck.

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.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.