Bad Luck Quotes

• My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Tangled, Decision, Luck

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.225, Penguin

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Remark after his election to Académie Française, 1955.

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• I was always lucky in my bad luck.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Luck, Lucky

  Bohumil Hrabal (2007). “I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)”, p.83, New Directions Publishing

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  You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Good Luck, Fortune And Luck, Saved

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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• Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

  Joseph Heller

  Good Luck, Simple, Destiny

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

  Miguel Torres

  Men, Mma, Luck

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2013

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• You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

  Mikhail Tal

  Mistake, Luck

  Source: www.chess.com

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• Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Luck, Lucky, Survived

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• Luck never made a man wise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

  Winston Churchill

  Good Luck, Adversity, May

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

  Dan Henderson

  Believe, Thinking, Luck

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• Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

  Nora Roberts

  Luck, Determine

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.309, Penguin

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• A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

  E. W. Howe

  Good Luck, Men, Years

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• Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

  Rohit Shetty

  Karma, Winning, Over You

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• If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

  Edna Buchanan

  Luck, Ifs

  Edna Buchanan (2003). “The Ice Maiden”, Center Point Pub

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• When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Good Luck

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• Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

  Mason Cooley

  Luck, Exception, Misfortunes

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, Gambling, People

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• All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

  Robert Collier

  Perseverance, Business, Good Luck

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  Patrick Murray

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Luck, Gambling, Toil

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

  Ian Fleming

  Mistake, Play, Gambling

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, People, Luck

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.124, BookBaby

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• Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

  James Cook

  Winning, Luck, May

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