Bad Luck Quotes - Page 2

• To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Inspiration, Men, Hands

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• I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Good Luck, Army

  "Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

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• If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Men, Gambling

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• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Smart

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

  George S. Clason

  Luck, Peculiar, Habit

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• Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

  Don Shula

  Funny, Sports, Football

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

  Larry King

  Success, Wisdom, Fake People

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• The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Luck, Literature, Conviction

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

  Wesley Morris

  Poor Decisions, Luck, Horror

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, God

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

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• Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

  Tig Notaro

  Fun, Good Luck, People

  "Very Funny" by Ariel Levy, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

  William Feather

  Betrayal, Good Luck, Regard

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

  Frank Wedekind

  Art, Knowing, Creative

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

  Josh Billings

  Success, Long, Giving

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

  Rick Majerus

  Luck, Looks, Way

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humor, Good Luck, Hard Work

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

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

  John Lyman Chatfield

  Luck, Majority, Judgment

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 09, 2014

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• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• You make your own luck. Some people have bad
  luck all their lives.

  Casey Stengel

  People, Luck

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