Quotes about Luck

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Yes—but your luck will come more at the end of life than at the beginning, because the other sort of people won't understand the way your mind works. They will start by thinking you dreamy and romantic, and then they'll be surprised to discover that you are really hard and heartless, they'll be quite wrong both times—but they won't ever know it, and you won't know it at first, and it'll worry you.

Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.

When you appreciate something and you're grateful for it - like going in to work everyday or just your partner or your job - you just do it that much better because you're lucky that you're doing it.

Luck is the residue of design.

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.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.

Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.