“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ? Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
This a collection of the best luck quotes at your fingertips.
This collection of luck quotes includes advice from Emmerson, Shakespeare, Tony Robbins, and more.
So tell me … are you feeling lucky? Y
ou can build a “lucky mindset” that either works for you or against you.
Whether you think the world conspires with you or against you, you’re right.
You can use luck quotes to build your lucky mindset.
Your views on luck can dramatically influence your success.
For example, if you think that success is out your control, then there’s no point in trying too hard.
On the other hand, if you think you can influence success through the right actions and the right mindsets, you’ll work at improving your success.
What the Great Ones Teach Us About Luck
Edward de Bono teaches us that luck runs the spectrum from very good luck to very bad luck. Sometimes it really is about being in the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the wrong time.
Malcolm Gladwell teaches us that when it comes to personal performance, it’s not luck, it’s deliberate practice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb teaches us not to mistake dumb luck for extreme skill.
Make Your Own Luck
Personally, I like the advice from a friend long ago. He said, “Luck is when skill and opportunity come together.” What I’ve found is that many things that look like luck at first blush, really are part of a system.
That said, of course, I know some things are unknowable.
In those cases, I focus on calculated risk.
Top 10 Greatest Luck Quotes
Here are the top 10 best luck quotes:
- “Chance favors the prepared mind.“ – Louis Pasteur
- “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.“ – R.E. Shay
- “Diligence is the mother of good luck.“ – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.“ – Henry Ford
- “In short, Luck’s always to blame.“ – Jean De La Fontaine
- “Luck is the residue of design.“ – Branch Rickey
- “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.“ – Earl Wilson
- “The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.“ – Wilson Mizner
- “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.“ – Harry Golden
- “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.“ – Edward Gibbon
More Great Luck Quotes …
Here are more luck quotes:
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.“
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Bad things happen to good people.“
– Anonymous
“Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.“
– Anonymous
“Concentration attracts luck factor.”
— Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
“Don’t luck into success.“
– Anonymous
“Everything in life is luck.“
– Donald Trump
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.“
– William Shakespeare
“Good luck beats early rising.“
– Proverb
“Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.“
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.“
– James Russell Lowell
“Good things come to those who wait.“
– Anonymous
“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?“
– Jean Cocteau
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.“
– Seneca
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.“
– Thomas Jefferson
“If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.“
– Les Brown
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.“
– Albert Einstein
“It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned.“
– Frank A. Clark
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.“
– John Lennon
“Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.“
– Ovid
“Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don’t depend on it.“
– Anonymous
“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
— Brandon Mull, Keys to the Demon Prison
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.“
– Tennessee Williams
“Luck is tenacity of purpose.“
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Luck is the idol of the idle.”
– Proverb
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
“Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
– Langston Coleman
“Luck never gives; it only lends.“
– Proverb
“Luck never made a man wise.“
– Seneca
“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
“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
“Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.“
– Proverb
“Maybe I’m lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.“
– Ashleigh Brilliant
“May good luck be your friend in whatever you do and may trouble be always a stranger to you.“
– Anonymous
“May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.“
– Anonymous
“Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.“
— François de la Rochefoucauld
“Nearly’ only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“Oh, I am fortune’s fool!”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.“
— Thomas Edison
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.“
– Demosthenes
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“So it’s probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.“
— Chris LeDoux
“The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.“
– Proverb
“The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.“
— Tony Robbins
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.“
– Bret Harte
“The sun doesn’t just hang on one family’s tree”
— Anchee Min, Empress Orchid
“Unlucky at cards, lucky in love.“
– Proverb
“When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.“
— Dr. Armand Hammer
What are your favorite quotes on luck?
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