Luck Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

60 Luck Quotes
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“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”
Seneca Quotes
“We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.”
Tim Rice Quotes
“Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.”
Richard Bach Quotes
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
Maya Angelou Quotes
“Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction”
Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
Bette Davis Quotes
“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 Quotes
Source: Good Luck
“As ill-luck would have it.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
“I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
“As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
“A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.”
James Thomas Fields Quotes
Source: The Lucky Horseshoe
“Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.”
John Heywood Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
“I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.”
John Heywood Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
John Heywood Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
“Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Source: Jerrold's Wit--Meeting Trouble Half-Way
“A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes
Source: Satires (VII, 202)
“Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Evangeline (pt. I, st. 2)
“"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.”
Samuel Lover Quotes
Source: Rory O'More
“Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: At a Vacation Exercise in the College
“Luck is the residue of design.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: At a Vacation Exercise in the College
“There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at I, iii)
“I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at III, xiii)
“Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Bedford at IV, iii)
“As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff at III, v)