Luck quotes and words of wisdom

"Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment."
John Chatfield


"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Stephen Butler Leacock


"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
Samuel Goldwyn


"I"m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson


"Knock on wood."
Proverb


"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
Oprah Winfrey


"Luck is largely a matter of paying attention."
Susan M. Dodd


"Luck is the residue of design."
Branch Rickey


"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca


"Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else."
Don Marquis


"Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me."
John Heywood


"Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody"s name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
Louis Hector Berlioz


"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
Anthony (Tony) Robbins


"There?s no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound."
John Cage


"You don"t just luck into things as much as you"d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it"s friendships or opportunities."
Barbara Pierce Bush


Interesting Quotes

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.Charles Buxton

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse-tung - Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)