These luck quotes will inspire you. Luck, the things that happen to a person because of chance or success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging luck quotes, luck sayings, and luck proverbs.
Best Luck Quotes
- “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 amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” ~ Barbara Sher
- “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” ~ Harry Golden
- “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” ~ Ray Kroc
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“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” ~ Orson Welles
- “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
- “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ~ Cormac McCarthy , Bad luck quotes
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“Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.” ~ Ovid
- “Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting” ~ Gregory David Roberts
- “Chance favors the prepared mind.” ~ Louis Pasteur
- “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” ~ Samuel Goldwyn
- “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~ Demosthenes
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“It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned.” ~ Frank A. Clark
- “Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don’t know how.” ~ Dennis Quaid , Love and luck quotes
- “Luck has nothing to do with it because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.” ~ Serena Williams
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“The deepest thing in anyone is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.” ~ Gertrude Stein
- “Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.” ~ Alice Hoffman
- “It’s a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can’t. Anything more than that is luck.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck – and, of course, courage.” ~ Bill Cosby
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“Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.” ~ Louis Pasteur
- “We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.” ~ Rex Stout
- “Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.” ~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- “Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.” ~ Michael Korda
- “Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It’s not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.” ~ Michel Foucault
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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” ~ Lucille Ball
- “When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.” ~ Donald Trump
- “Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!” ~ William Shakespeare
- “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
- “Chance is the one thing you can’t buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.” ~ Robert Doisneau
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“If you can’t take a good kicking, you shouldn’t parade how much luckier you are than other people.” ~ Charles Saatchi
- “Luck relies on chance, labor on character.” ~ Richard Cobden
- “Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I’ll be writing books, but if not, I’ll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.” ~ John Grisham
- “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!” ~ Neil Armstrong
- “Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.” ~ Tom Holt
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“Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.” ~ John Lyman Chatfield
- “Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.” ~ Susan M Dodd
- “We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don’t turn away.” ~ Lesley Boone
- “I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.” ~ Bobby Knight
- “A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.” ~ E. W. Howe
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“Luck is not the hand of God…. Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.” ~ Patrick deWitt
- “I’m lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.” ~ Neil Diamond
- “With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.” ~ Andy Grove
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“My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.” ~ Armand Hammer
- “Luck is what a capricious man believes in.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.” ~ Zhuangzi
- “To believe in luck … is skepticism.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I don’t believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.” ~ Joyce Brothers
- “Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.” ~ Jim Fixx
- “I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn’t involved in his success is deluding himself.” ~ Arthur Hailey , Success and luck quotes
- “I wish I could tell you that the Children’s Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.” ~ Joan Ganz Cooney
- “Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain ‘Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.” ~ Emily Dickinson
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“Luck whines; labor whistles.” ~ Samuel Smiles
- “Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion’s share, but the whole glory of our position.” ~ William Matthews
- “Luck cannot change birth.” ~ Horace
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“Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.” ~ Douglas William Jerrold
- “Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!” ~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
- “Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light, but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief when fortune owns the cause.” ~ John Dryden
