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A list of the best luck quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous luck quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic luck quotes are displayed next to each quote, so if you see one you like be. See: (good) old-fashioned luck a hard-luck story a run of (good) luck a run of bad luck a streak of (good) luck a streak of bad luck a string of (good) luck a string of bad luck a stroke of luck and one (more) for luck any luck any luck? As chance/luck would have it as luck may have it as luck would have it bad luck be down on (one's) luck be down on.

The repository contains 18 quotes in the category “Luck.”

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

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Thomas Edison
1847 — 1931

The sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass all the time.

Catfish Hunter
1946 — 1999

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I’ll be at the airport.

Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Anatole France
1844 — 1924

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Titus Livy
60? B.C. — 17

Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents that started to happen to somebody else.

Don Marquis
1878 — 1937

Luck is opportunity met by preparation -- and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

Neal Boortz
1945 —

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I’d rather be lucky than good any day.

Unknown

You don’t need luck if you’re good.

Unknown

Luck is the residue of design.

Unknown

If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all.

Unknown

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey
1954 —

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis

Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.

R. E. Shay

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Proverb

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Swedish Proverb

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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd. ~William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, c.1609 [IV, 3, Pisanio]
Luck has a longer reach than wisdom. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~R.E. Shay
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. ~Don Sutton
Our lucky star is the one that happens to be in sight when we are having a bit of luck. ~Henry Stanley Haskins, 'Luck and Chance,' Meditations in Wall Street, 1940
Luck never gives; it only lends. ~Swedish Proverb
Go and wake up your luck. ~Persian Saying
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King
Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck. ~Author Unknown
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~Langston Coleman
It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. ~Frank A. Clark
Luck never made a man wise. ~Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Author Unknown
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. ~Coleman Cox
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck. ~Author Unknown
Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. ~Author Unknown
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~Jean Cocteau
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden



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