Quotes for Luck

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Og Mandino

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Ibrahim Babangida

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

James Altucher

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

It's been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: 'I'm going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.' You've just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

John Kennedy

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everything in life is luck.

Donald Trump

Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.

Richard Corliss

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Emerson

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

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Wilson

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Jerry Reed

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Iain Duncan Smith

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

Jamie Oliver

It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

Chuck Norris

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

Christine Pelosi

Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.

Kathleen Kennedy

I have always worked hard. The only thing missing was a smile from Lady Luck.

Vidyasagar

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau