136 Luck Quotes

Luck has always fascinated us, captivating our imaginations, and influencing countless decisions throughout history. From ancient myths to modern-day strategies, the concept of luck weaves through cultures and philosophies alike. Whether you view luck as a random occurrence or a product of hard work and preparation, there's no denying the profound impact it has on our lives. In this collection, we bring you 136 of the most insightful, inspiring, and thought-provoking luck quotes from a variety of voices across time. Dive in and explore how different perspectives on luck can shape your understanding and, perhaps, your fortune.

1. “There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.” - Tom Robbins

2. “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson

3. “Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.” - Terry Pratchett

4. “Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.” - Kurt Vonnegut

5. “All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and then the luck, the bad luck will come and everything we are, all that we can ever be, all the Einsteins and babies and love and hate, all the joy and sadness and sex and wanting and liking and disliking, all the soft summer breezes on cheeks and first snowflakes, all the Van Goghs and Rembrandts and Mozarts and Mahlers and Thomas Jeffersons and Lincolns and Ghandis and Jesus Christs, all the Cleopatras and lovemaking and riches and achievements and progress, all of that, every single damn thing that we are or ever will be is dependent on six inches of topsoil and the fact that the rain comes when it's needed and does not come when it is not needed; everything, every...single...thing comes with that luck.” - Gary Paulsen

6. “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.” - Bill Watterson

7. “Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.” - Alice Hoffman

8. “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.” - Horace

10. “People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ” - Anne Tyler

11. “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” - Terry Pratchett

12. “He had fought wizards (though not because he wished to), battled goblinkin (only because running hadn't been an option at the time), and faced incredible monsters (drat the luck he sometimes had when he thought about it).” - Mel Odom

13. “luck is not to be coerced.” - Albert Camus

14. “Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.” - Langston Hughes

15. “But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” - Ernest Hemingway

16. “Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.” - Jane Austen

17. “Fortune favours the brave, sir," said Carrot cheerfully."Good. Good. Pleased to hear it, captain. What is her position vis a vis heavily armed, well prepared and excessively manned armies?""Oh, no–one's ever heard of Fortune favouring them, sir.""According to General Tacticus, it's because they favour themselves," said Vimes. He opened the battered book. Bits of paper and string indicated his many bookmarks. "In fact, men, the general has this to say about ensuring against defeat when outnumbered, out–weaponed and outpositioned. It is..." he turned the page, "'Don't Have a Battle.'""Sounds like a clever man," said Jenkins. He pointed to the yellow horizon."See all that stuff in the air?" he said. "What do you think that is?""Mist?" said Vimes."Hah, yes. Klatchian mist! It's a sandstorm! The sand blows about all the time. Vicious stuff. If you want to sharpen your sword, just hold it up in the air.""Oh.""And it's just as well because otherwise you'd see Mount Gebra. And below it is what they call the Fist of Gebra. It's a town but there's a bloody great fort, walls thirty feet thick. 's like a big city all by itself. 's got room inside for thousands of armed men, war elephants, battle camels, everything. And if you saw that, you'd want me to turn round right now. Whats your famous general got to say about it, eh?""I think I saw something..." said Vimes. He flicked to another page. "Ah, yes, he says, 'After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if the enemy has an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.'""That's a lot of help," said Jenkins.Vimes slipped the book into a pocket."So, Constable Visit, there's a god on our side, is there?""Certainly, sir.""But probably also a god on their side as well?""Very likely, sir. There's a god on every side.""Let's hope they balance out, then.” - Terry Pratchett

18. “There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.” - Balthasar Gracian

19. “Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.” - Terry Pratchett

20. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” - Dalai Lama XIV

21. “Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.” - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

22. “A statement about luck is a statement about the mind, not about the world... We find what seems to have been the lucky break or the big mistake, and so we thank our lucky stars that we took the road less traveled or curse the fates that sent that little wavelet that flipped us on our backs. With hindsight, we seem to see that everything preceding the pivotal point was leading up to it, tending toward it, and that everything following it grew from it.To any observer outside the lucky one himself, however, luck is simply chance. Chance is neutral.” - Eric Kraft

23. “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” - Cormac McCarthy

24. “Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared” - Ian Fleming

25. “Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.” - Ian Fleming

26. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

27. “Hals und Beinbruch, Saukerl.” - Markus Zusak

28. “Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.” - Neil Gaiman

29. “Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.” - Craig Ferguson

30. “Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.” - Anna Gavalda

31. “Do ya' feel lucky, punk?” - Clint Eastwood

32. “What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.” - Sakura Tsukuba

33. “Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.” - Josephine Hart

34. “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it” - Stephen Leacock

35. “Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ” - Garrison Keillor

36. “Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. ” - Joan Lowery Nixon

37. “But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But change needn't happen all at once. It can be small gestures.""Moments. Do you understand?" He's looking at me differently now, though I cannot say how. I only know I need to look away...We pass by the pools, where the mud larks sift. And for only a few seconds, I let the magic loose again."Oi! By all the saints!" a boy cries from the river."Gone off the dock?" an old woman calls. The mud larks break into cackles."'S not a rock!" he shouts. He races out of the fog, cradling something in his palm. Curiosity gets the better of the others. They crowd about trying to see. In his palm is a smattering of rubies. "We're rich mates! It's a hot bath and a full belly for every one of us!"Kartik eyes me suspiciously. "That was a strange stroke of good fortune.""Yes it was.""I don't suppose that was your doing.""I'm not sure I don't know what you mean," I say.And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” - Libba Bray

38. “They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

39. “I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.” - John Berryman

40. “Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck” - Toba Beta

41. “Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?”“Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.” - Ann Aguirre

42. “Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!” - Lloyd Alexander

43. “My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was af if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good things coming our way, only I thought she said "fate" because she couldn't pronounce the "th" sound in "faith". And later I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. I found out the most I could have was hope, and with that I wasn't denying any possibility, good or bad. I was just saying, If there is a choice, dear God or whatever you are, here's where the odds should be placed.I remember the day I started thinking this, it was such a revelation to me. It was the day my mother lost her faith in God. She found that things of unquestioned certainty could never be trusted again. We had gone to the beach, to a secluded spot south of the city near Devil's Slide. My father had read in Sunset magazine that this was a good place to catch ocean perch. And although my father was not a fisherman but a pharmacist's assistant who had once been a doctor in China, he believed in his nenkan, his ability to do anything he put his mind to. My mother believed she had nenkan to cook anything my father had a mind to catch. It was this belief in their nenkan that had brought my parents to America. It had enabled them to have seven children and buy a house in Sunset district with very little money. It had given them the confidence to believe their luck would never run out, that God was on their side, that house gods had only benevolent things to report and our ancestors were pleased, that lifetime warranties meant our lucky streak would never break, that all the elements were now in balance, the right amount of wind and water.” - Amy Tan

44. “I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")” - Alice Brown

45. “In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.” - Michael J. Behe

46. “Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.” - Peter Redgrove

47. “Tuck a buck as a puck of luck.” - Toba Beta

48. “You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.” - Bill Maher

49. “Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.” - Toba Beta

50. “Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain.” - Toba Beta

51. “It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.” - Laura Lippman

52. “What’s so funny? (Astrid)I’m just thinking, here I am a slave who touched a star who then made him a demigod. I have to be the luckiest bastard who ever lived. (Zarek)” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

53. “The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought” - Ernest Hemingway

54. “On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.” - Janet Evanovich

55. “[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.” - Michael Chabon

56. “Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.” - John Fowles

57. “Luck is the residue of design.” - John Milton

58. “Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of such ideas as "her luck has run out" and "He is due." That does not happen. For what it's worth, a good streak doesn't jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store.” - Leonard Mlodinow

59. “Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.” - Ben Jonson

60. “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” - Roman Payne

61. “Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky."Wayne: "It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat." Marasi frowned. "I ... I'm not sure I know how to respond."Wax: "That's a common reaction to Wayne.” - Brandon Sanderson

62. “Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.” - Steve Maraboli

63. “…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.” - Louisa May Alcott

64. “In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.” - Jeffrey Eugenides

65. “Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I'm utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand."For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me."Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water. "For luck," I say to his startled face.” - Maggie Stiefvater

66. “The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio")” - Tennessee Williams

67. “Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.” - Sally Koslow

68. “Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.” - Lorii Myers

69. “Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.” - William Goldman

70. “When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography.” - Iveta Cherneva

71. “Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.” - Vera Nazarian

72. “Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.” - Cinda Williams Chima

73. “Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.” - P.G. Wodehouse

74. “And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.” - Jonathan Stroud

75. “A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen.” - Toba Beta

76. “Luck prefers risk-based mindset.” - Toba Beta

77. “I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.” - Roald Amundsen

78. “Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)” - Groucho Marx

79. “Nobody can be lucky all the time,so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon't think you've been abandoned in your prime,but rather that you're saving up your ration.” - Piet Hein

80. “Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.” - David Levien

81. “That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.Fate. Luck. Chance.” - Kelseyleigh Reber

82. “Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.” - Fannie Flagg

83. “Wanita tanpa ibu mertua adalah menantu yang sangat beruntung.” - Farahad Zama

84. “It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.” - Justin Taylor

85. “Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.” - S.D. Crockett

86. “For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.” - Ernest Hemingway

87. “If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.” - Sarah Dunant

88. “He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.” - Ernest Hemingway

89. “Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?""No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck.""And observation. I found it.""You did. And I could kiss you for it. You need not shrink and tremble. I am not going to do it. When I kiss you, it will be an important event -- one of those things which stand out among their surroundings like the first time you tasted li-chee. It will not be an unimportant sideshow attached to a detective investigation.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

90. “For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.” - Emma Donoghue

91. “There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.” - Tahir Shah

92. “He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.” - Cormac McCarthy

93. “What do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I'll be lucky if I can just find someone who'll be able to stand me for the rest of our lives. What if I've already sent her home because I was relying on some sort of spark I didn't feel? What if she's waiting to leave me at the first sign of adversity? What if I don't find anyone at all? What do I do then, America?” - Kiera Cass

94. “The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.” - J.M. Barrie

95. “Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.” - Christopher Hitchens

96. “But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.” - Catherynne M. Valente

97. “Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...” - Stephen King

98. “I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.” - Sonya Bateman

99. “I’m so far from lucky, I’m kissing its ass from the other side.” - Sonya Bateman

100. “Heads: This girlTails: That girl” - Lisa Schroeder

101. “When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.” - Mark Twain

102. “Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.” - Jessica Sorensen

103. “You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.” - Luigi Pirandello

104. “This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.” - Elizabeth Berg

105. “Beginner's luck is great for beginners.” - Robert Fripp

106. “If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence” - Paulo Coelho

107. “It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.” - Jyoti Arora

108. “Jeigu būtų kur nors pasaulyje tokia vieta, kur tikrai vieną valandą per visus metus būtų galima gauti ką nors valgomo, jis kaip tik šią valandą, tarsi kokio įkvėpimo genamas, užsidėtų kepurę, išeitų, nueitų tiesiai lyg pagal kompasą ten, kur yra valgis, ir jį surastų. <...> Tai yra kažkokia mįslė, galima pamanyti, kad jis iš žemės iškasa. Didžiausias jo laimėjimas buvo keturios dėžės omarų.” - Erich Maria Remarque

109. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” - Samuel Goldwyn

110. “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)” - Timothy Zahn

111. “I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.” - A.A. Bell

112. “You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.” - Margaret Atwood

113. “All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return.” - seneca

114. “Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.” - Baltasar Gracian

115. “Good luck is a residue of preparation.” - Jack Youngblood

116. “Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.” - Phyllis Bottome

117. “You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that-- it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.” - Michelle Diener

118. “Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.” - Wally Lamb

119. “He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction that all the machinery was rigged against him, at the bottom of his soul was a faith that he was going to outwit it, that by carefully watching the signs he was going to know when to dodge and be spared. It was fatalism with a loophole, and all you had to do to make it work was never miss a sign. Survival by coordination, as it were. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside. Like a frog evading a shillelagh in a midnight marsh.” - Hunter S. Thompson

120. “I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck” - Rob Reger

121. “The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.” - Bono

122. “Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.” - Charles Bukowski

123. “My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.” - Patrick Rothfuss

124. “I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

125. “Fortune love you.” - William Shakespeare

126. “We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work” - Celso Cukierkorn

127. “While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.” - Tom Shippey

128. “Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.” - Joe Abercrombie

129. “The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.” - Robert Penn Warren

130. “But bad luck makes good stories.” - Bernard Evslin

131. “I was just trying to open the door... but the walls fall down” - Saket Assertive

132. “Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth,Wednesday the best day of all,Thursday for crosses,Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.” - Folk Rhyme

133. “Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” - Anthon St. Maarten

134. “Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” - Ernest Hemingway

135. “For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.” - Stewart O'Nan

136. “Our life is our only chance...” - Laure Lacornette