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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
-Italian Proverb
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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms
-Japanese Proverb
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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
-Proverb
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Luck is the idol of the idle.
-Proverb
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
-Proverb
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When God throws the dice are loaded.
-Proverb
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Good luck beats early rising.
-Proverb
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-Lucille Ball
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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
-Lord Beaverbrook
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There is death in the pot. 2 Kings 4:40
-Bible
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The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.
-Bible
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Good luck needs no explanation.
-Shirley Temple Black
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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
-William Blake
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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
Latin: Adeo nihil est miserum, nisi cum putes: contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.
-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)
Consolation of Philosphy, Book 2, Prose 4 V.E. Watts' translation, Penguin
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I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Luck marches with those who give their very best
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
-Barbara Bush
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-Victor Cherbuliez
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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
-George S. Clason
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
-Richard Cobden
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
-Jean Cocteau
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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
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
-Robertson Davies
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Books about Luck
