Luck Quotes - Page 7

• I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

  Bobby Knight

  Believe, Preparation, I Believe

  "6 commencement speeches to inspire grads old and new" by Chandra Johnson, www.deseretnews.com. May 14, 2016.

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• A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Good Luck, Men, Wife

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.30

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

  Anne Tyler

  Good Luck, People, Criticism

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• Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  "The Works of James Russell Lowell".

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• 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.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Coward, Tolls, Worst

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2877, Simon and Schuster

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• There's luck in odd numbers.

  Samuel Lover

  Numbers, Odd Numbers, Odd

  William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.145

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• I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Respect, Romance

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

  William Feather

  Betrayal, Good Luck, Bad Luck

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, May

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• As ill-luck would have it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Ill

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.103

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• And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Good Luck, Shoes

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.511, Delphi Classics

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• A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

  James Thomas Fields

  Blessing, Journey, Doors

  James Thomas Fields, “The Lucky Horseshoe”

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• Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Watches, Want, Fattening

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• Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

  Don Sutton

  Good Luck, Effort, Best Of Luck

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• Luck has nothing to do with it.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational, Mind, Body

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• Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Running, Energy

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• People make their own luck.

  David Liederman

  People

  David Liederman, Alex Taylor (1989). “Running through walls”, Contemporary Books

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• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

  Tony Robbins

  Opportunity, Preparation, Action

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 03, 2015

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• In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

  Loretta Lynn

  Running, Long, Indifferent

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.71, Vintage

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• Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Men, Capricious

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• Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  May, Madness, Mere

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.122

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• When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Motivational, Self

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