Thoughts About Luck

Luck

A rabbit's foot is a poor substitute for horse sense.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad 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.

Victory awaits those who have everything in order. People call this luck.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

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.

Good luck beats early rising.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

He who does not venture has no luck.

Luck is being prepared for opportunity when it comes.

Luck = Good Planning + Careful Execution.

Luck never gives; it only lends.

When luck enters, give him a seat!

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.

Go and wake up your luck.

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

Luck is like a sum of gold, to be spent.

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline--and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.

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

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

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.

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

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

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