LUCK QUOTES VIII

quotations about luck

Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods and you don't win the favour of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.

ANITA BROOKNER

attributed, Writers at Work

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I know what you're thinkin', punk. You're thinkin' did he fire six shots or only five? Now to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But bein' this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it'll blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?!

CLINT EASTWOOD

Dirty Harry

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

VOLTAIRE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck; a good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of.

JOSEPH ADDISON

attributed, Day's Collacon

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

JUVENAL

Satires

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Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

OVID

attributed, The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

attributed, Roosevelt and Howe

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If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

SARAH DUNANT

In the Company of the Courtesan


Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind,
And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind;
For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give,
And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live."

HENRY VAN DYKE

"The Angler's Reveille", The Poems of Henry Van Dyke

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Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

VERA NAZARIAN

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn to their own disadvantage.

ROCHEFOUCAULD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

ALBERT M. GREENFIELD

attributed, Quips, Quotes and Savvy Sayings


Apportioned and allotted upon arrival here on Earth,
our luck is spent in small segments for joys and births.

HERBERT SIEGEL

Discrete Thoughts


Luck is for suckers.

JOHN GREEN

Looking for Alaska

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Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

HARRISON FORD

"The Real Harrison Ford", San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 13, 1990


I never knew anyone to get stung by hornets, who kept away from where they were; it is just so with bad luck.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

CAPRICE CRANE

With a Little Luck: A Novel


It's better to be lucky than wise.

ENGLISH PROVERB


We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

REX STOUT

The Rubber Band

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