No Luck Quotes

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

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

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

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

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

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.