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Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging bad luck quotes, bad luck sayings, and bad luck proverbs.
Best Bad Luck Quotes
- “Aren’t I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
- “Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.” ~ Miguel Torres
- “My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I’m paying for it.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss
- “Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.” ~ Joseph Heller
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ~ Cormac McCarthy
- “You can’t avoid mistakes and bad luck.” ~ Mikhail Tal
- “You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “I don’t believe in superstition, I think it’s bad luck.” ~ Dan Henderson
- “Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.” ~ Rohit Shetty
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“A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.” ~ E. W. Howe
- “When you think things are bad when you feel sour and blue when you start to get mad… you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky! Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “If not for bad luck we’d have no luck at all.” ~ Edna Buchanan
- “Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.” ~ Mason Cooley
- “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” ~ Orson Welles , Good luck, bad luck quotes
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“Luck never made a man wise.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck – who keeps right on going – is the man who is there when the good luck comes – and is ready to receive it.” ~ Robert Collier
- “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.” ~ Patrick Murray
- “Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.” ~ James Cook
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“If a man who can’t count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?” ~ Stanislaw Lem
- “I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.” ~ St. Catherine of Siena
- “At Gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” ~ Ian Fleming
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“Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.” ~ George S. Clason
- “Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.” ~ Wesley Morris
- “The deepest thing in anyone is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.” ~ Gertrude Stein
- “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.” ~ Larry King
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“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor…..Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.” ~ Tig Notaro
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“Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.” ~ Don Shula
- “Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.” ~ John Lyman Chatfield
- “I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.” ~ Frank Wedekind
- “Look, I haven’t had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.” ~ Rick Majerus
- “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~ Demosthenes
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“I was always lucky in my bad luck.” ~ Bohumil Hrabal
- “Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.” ~ Mark Twain
- “As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.” ~ Josh Billings
- “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” ~ Harry Golden
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“Good night, and good luck.” ~ Edward R. Murrow
- “Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.” ~ William Feather
- “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?” ~ Jean Cocteau
- “And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” ~ Edward Gibbon
- “We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.” ~ Christopher Morley
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“I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.” ~ Steven Wright
- “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.” ~ Luis Bunuel
- “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.” ~ Kristen Stewart
- “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.” ~ Selma Blair , Bad luck quotes relationships
- “When you are writing a song for something else if you are doing something for money, I always think that’s bad luck.” ~ Chad Kroeger
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“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?” ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.” ~ Don Sutton
- “People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.” ~ Chris Prentiss
- “Above all, he liked it that everything was one’s own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared” ~ Ian Fleming
- “Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.” ~ Orson Welles
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“The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn’t say.” ~ Will Cuppy
- “The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.” ~ Peter Senge
- “The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn’t laziness or bad luck, it’s comfort.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki , Bad luck quotes about life
- “Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.” ~ Irvine Welsh
- “When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.” ~ Teddy Pendergrass
- “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” ~ William Shakespeare