Quotes about Luck
A crow can recall every route it has ever taken, and Cadin had been this way before. Crows are messengers, spies, guides, companions, harbingers of luck, deliverers of trinkets and treasures, tireless in all ways, more loyal than any other man or beast.
— Alice Hoffman
Where there were lilacs there would be luck.
— Alice Hoffman
Oh, how Vincent wished he could tell his sisters how unexpected everything was. He wished they could sit down at the table, today, in the sunlight, so that he could tell them everything. Once, a long time ago, before we knew who we were, we thought we wanted to be like everyone else. How lucky to be exactly who we were.
— Alice Hoffman
I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.
— Alice Walker
Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity, and opportunity is there all the time.
— Earl Nightingale
Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a lucky sixpence in her shoe.
— Anonymous
For each petal on the shamrock This brings a wish your way - Good health, good luck, and happiness For today and every day.
— Anonymous
There's no need to be jealous of others' life, for the achievements that they got by chance. Why rely purely on luck when you can also achieve your goals through working hard?
— Anonymous
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
— Muhammad Ali
Full moon calls thee-- Shai-hulud shall thou see; Red the night, dusky sky, Bloody death didst thou die. We pray to a moon: she is round-- Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.
— Frank Herbert
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be started this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
— Frank Herbert
Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.
— Frank Herbert