Unlucky Quotes

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Tig Notaro

Persons

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My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

Duffy Daugherty

Sports, Games, Feelings

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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Patti Smith

Adventure, Fate, Design

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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

Jonathan Coe

People, Childhood, Happy Childhood

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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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But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

Jamie Redknapp

No Point, Looking Back

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It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Ayn Rand

Achievement, Lucky, Rotten

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.551, Penguin

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.

Robert Kiyosaki

Doe, Lucky, Mindset

FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 05, 2013

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If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Luck, Proud, Ifs

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Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

Viktor E. Frankl

Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Cecelia Ahern

Decision, Bad Decision, Keep Going

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There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

Betty Smith

People, Bad People

BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Samuel Butler

People, Lucky, Ratios

Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I was unlucky, like my country.

Paul Keres

Country

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We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yesterday, Lucky, Today

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Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

William Shakespeare

Jealous, Justice, Speak

'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

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I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

D. H. Lawrence

Luck, Literature, Want

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1124, Book House

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I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for the last twelve years, and the only thing I ever won was a coupon for a small little jar of tomato paste. But they were out of tomato paste, and by the time they got more in, my coupon had expired. And now I have venereal disease.

Louise Lasser

Stars, Filled Out, Years

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The harder I work the more I live.

George Bernard Shaw

Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Lu Xun

People, Luck, Enough

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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

George Eliot

Good Luck, Men, Lucky Man

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.374

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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

Dorothy Parker

Heartbreak, Love Is, Thinking

Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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

Stephen Leacock

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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