Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

- Michael Korda

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

- Ellen Goodman

So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.

- Don Marquis

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

- Beryl Markham

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Ovid

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Maya Angelou

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

Bad luck is universal. Don't take it personally.

- Solomon Short

Luck is believing you're lucky.

- Tennessee Williams

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck.

- Buddha

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

- William Shakespeare

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

- Mark Twain

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

- Joseph Heller



Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

- John Dewey



People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

- Frank Sinatra



The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

- Joyce Carol Oates



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



True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

- John Hay



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



People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

- Anne Tyler



Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



In short, Luck's always to blame.

- Jean De La Fontaine



I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

- David Selby



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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?

- Jean Cocteau



Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

- E. B. White



Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

- John Barrymore



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



All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

- Edward Gibbon



Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

- Edward Gibbon



The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

- Edward Gibbon



I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

- Thomas Jefferson



Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon



If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

- Seneca



Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

- George Santayana