Luck Quotes - page 2

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. (Winston Churchill)
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. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. View quote
Frank Wedekind
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I don't believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Some folk want their luck buttered. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. View quote
Garrison Keillor
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day. View quote
Philip Pullman
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. View quote
Michael Korda
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. (Ernest Hemingway)
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I was always lucky in my bad luck. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. View quote
Woody Allen
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
The best luck always happens to people who don't need it. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it. View quote
Tom Holt
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it. View quote
Douglas William Jerrold
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. (John Steinbeck)
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. View quote
Emily Dickinson
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78. View quote
Paul Dirac
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity. View quote
Randy Pausch