Luck Quotes - Page 8

• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

  Rex Stout

  Merit

  Rex Stout (2013). “The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-in-1”, p.181, Bantam

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• O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

  John L. Bates

  Heart, Good Luck, Men

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• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

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• 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

  Strength, Strong, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Work, Belief, Cynicism

  1970 Do WhatYou Will, pt.2, ch.15.

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• Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Literature, Being The Best

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

  John Heywood

  Good Luck, Casts

  John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

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• Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

  Gregory David Roberts

  Tired, Fate, Waiting

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Luck cannot change birth.

  Horace

  Birth

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• Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.

  William Matthews

  Dream, Agency, Sight

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• Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

  Zhuangzi

  Principles, Absence, Absolutes

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• Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fate, Gains, Difficult

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

  Jim Fixx

  Clever, Matter, Fortune

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• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

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• I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

  Arthur Hailey

  Kind, Has Beens, Involved

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• Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wings, Bidding, Favors

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• To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Skepticism

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• Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Mouths, Come Up

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• I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

  Joyce Brothers

  Believe, Fortune, Don't Believe

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• Luck whines; labor whistles.

  Samuel Smiles

  Labor

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.176

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• I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Children, Wish, Genius

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• My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

  Armand Hammer

  Business, Average, People

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• A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

  E. W. Howe

  Good Luck, Men, Years

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• Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Richard Cobden

  Character, Chance, Labor

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