65 Lottery Quotes On Success In Life

These lottery quotes will inspire you. Lottery, a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance or a means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging lottery quotes, lottery sayings, and lottery proverbs.

Best Lottery Quotes

1. “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?” ~ Jay Leno
2. “Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
3. “I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.” ~ Daniel Tammet
4. “Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they’re about to announce the lottery numbers.” ~ Matt Groening

5. “I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.” ~ Fran Lebowitz

6. “The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.” ~ Arian Foster
7. “Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.” ~ Vera Nazarian
8. “There’s a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,’Dear saint-please, please, please…give me the grace to win the lottery.’ This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,’My son-please, please, please…buy a ticket.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert , Lottery quotes ticket
9. “Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.” ~ John Vanbrugh

10. “Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.” ~ Bill Watterson

11. “I despise the Lottery. There’s less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.” ~ Brian May
12. “There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
13. “People would love to be rich, but they’re looking for the easy way. Who wouldn’t want to win the lottery? Just to score.” ~ Bryan Cranston
14. “Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.” ~ Cecil Rhodes

15. “Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.” ~ Jonah Hill

16. “I’m happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you’ve won the lottery.” ~ Susan Orlean
17. “You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? … Former Democrats” ~ Jay Leno , Lottery quotes winner
18. “I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.” ~ Queen Victoria
19. “At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude – a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.” ~ Ernest Bramah

20. “Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.” ~ Adam Smith

21. “I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.” ~ Ruth Simmons
22. “Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.” ~ Margaret Atwood
23. “Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never – they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.” ~ Eva Braun
24. “My support group – my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna – I know I can trust them. Most of the other people…they never called me before, they never said “I love you” before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It’s like, don’t do it now…You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody’s your best friend.” ~ Carrie Underwood

25. “Life is a lottery that we’ve already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.” ~ Louise Hay

26. “Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It’s highly unlikely and very unusual.” ~ Lori Lansens
27. “We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?” ~ Sheryl WuDunn
28. “We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.” ~ Francesca Martinez
29. “One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at utter random…nevertheless although the miracle of life stands “explained” it does not strike us as any less miraculous. As Francois Mauriac wrote, What this professor says is far more incredible than what we poor Christians believe.” ~ Jacques Monod

30. “Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.” ~ Drake

31. “If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?” ~ Steven Wright
32. “Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!” ~ Abraham Cowley
33. “I don’t really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.” ~ Shaquille O’Neal
34. “If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I’ve hit the lottery.” ~ Justin Long

35. “The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.” ~ Adam Smith

36. “Marriage is a lottery, but you can’t tear up your ticket if you lose.” ~ Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
37. “If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.” ~ Steve Morse
38. “If you’re waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.” ~ Aaron Bruno
39. “The left think that America is a special place, but not because of anything the people here did to make it special. It just happens to be. And the people who were here are here simply by winning life’s lottery. It’s all fate; it’s all luck. And if anybody else in the world wants to come to this one special place, then nobody has the right to tell them they can’t because we are all immigrants.” ~ Rush Limbaugh

40. “A lottery is a tax on stupidity.” ~ Ambrose Bierce

41. “The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that” ~ John Warren Kindt
42. “The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.” ~ Neal Boortz
43. “There is no devious and dangerous life. I’ve lived a charmed life, especially in the last thirty years since I’ve started publishing. I’ve won the lottery. And I keep winning it every year and I am so fortunate to do something I thoroughly enjoy and still enjoy after a bunch of books.” ~ John Grisham
44. “The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery – and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved – not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.” ~ Catherine O’Hara

45. “We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling” ~ John Warren Kindt

46. “The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they’re only where they are ’cause the rich have cheated them, exploited them, or stolen all their money. The way they’re gonna make it equal is to take from those people who have just won life’s lottery, the premise being that the poor and the rich and the middle class are gonna get the money.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
47. “It’s hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that’s such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it’s very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you’re making the big money is like winning the lottery.” ~ Isabella Rossellini
48. “I’m going to talk to her.” “And how’s that going to go? You’re just going to walk up to her and say, ‘Hey, I know you’ve never seen me before, but I’m your dad. Oh, and guess what? You’ve won the evolutionary lottery: You’re a vampire. Let’s go to Disneyland!” ~ J.R. Ward
49. “It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard

50. “Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they’re there to make our most absurd dreams come true.” ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

51. “she was just…beaming at me, and I thought she’d won the lottery or something, her smile was that big. I asked what happened, and she said…” Park swallowed again. “She said, ‘You’re here.”’ He blinked at Tess. “‘You’re here.’ That’s all it was. That big goofy smile just because I was there. Nobody ever smiled like that at me before.” ~ Jennifer Crusie
52. “It’s blasphemous, don’t get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It’s just fake gold and plastic… We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when’s the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?” ~ Nick Cannon
53. “The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.” ~ Anthea Turner
54. “He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.” ~ Robert Farrar Capon

55. “Innovation is a discipline, not a lottery… It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and open-mindedness.” ~ Georges St-Pierre

56. “It’s interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery – but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.” ~ Ernie J Zelinski
57. “When you buy a lottery ticket, you don’t know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.” ~ Robert Haugen
58. “In Las Vegas, we all know that it’s the croupiers who win. At the race track, it’s those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.” ~ John C. Bogle

59. “Well you can’t win the lottery if you don’t have a ticket” ~ Andy Gray

60. “People don’t want to serve apprenticeships anymore. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they’ve achieved anything. It doesn’t work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that, you don’t deserve to be getting lottery money.” ~ Daley Thompson
61. “We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we’re harder working, not that we’re more virtuous – it’s that we’re luckier.” ~ Nicholas D. Kristof
62. “The state of radio is not great. It’s like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind-boggling slim.” ~ Teddy Thompson

63. “We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.” ~ Stefan Molyneux

64. “Life’s a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.” ~ George Colman the Elder
65. “The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It’s like the lottery winner who ends up broke.” ~ Paul Theroux

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