luck quotes

“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“God's dice always have a lucky roll.”

“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ”

“The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.”

“In short, Luck's always to blame.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Luck's always to blame. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”

— Maya Angelou

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.”

— Tony Robbins

“This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.”

— Henry Rollins

“I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.”

— Henry Rollins

“I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.”

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.”

“But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.”

— David Bowie

“Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.”

— Steven Spielberg

“It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.”

— Ayrton Senna

“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?”

— Angelina Jolie

“Everything in life is luck.”

— Donald Trump

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