March 03, 2020

31 Best Quotes about Luck

to inspire good fortune for you!

The Concept of Luck

Whether your Irish or not, the month of St. Patrick’s Day conjures within us all ideas about luck. From four-leaf clovers to rainbows, we are surrounded by references to being lucky this month.

Now seems to be as good a time as any to take a look at this concept of luck… What exactly is luck? Where does the concept of luck come from? What springs to mind for you when I mention the word luck?

The concept of luck comes up frequently historically and in pop culture. There are movie quotes about being lucky. Business experts talk about the correlation between luck and hard work. Starry-eyed lovers speak of being lucky in love and lucky to find their soulmates.

No matter your take on the concept of luck, if you love quotes like I do, we can all enjoy reading famous quotes about luck. So, sit back, keep scrolling, and get ready to be inspired and maybe laugh a little…

31 Best Quotes about Luck

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The harder I work, the luckier I get.

- Samuel Goldwyn

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Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

- Dalai Lama XIV

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You make your own luck.

- Ernest Hemingway

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I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

- Maria Sharapova

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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

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

- Seneca

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No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

- Mark Cuban

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

- Ray Kroc

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Luck can only get you so far.

- J.K. Rowling

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

- Earl Wilson

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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

- Douglas MacArthur

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I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

- Steven Wright

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It's hard to detect good luck -- it looks so much like something you've earned.

- Frank A. Clark

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We are all a great deal luckier than we realize; we usually get what we want - or near enough.

- Roald Dahl

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Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

- Hunter S. Thompson

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I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'

- Tom Brokaw

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When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

- Daniel Radcliffe

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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

- Bette Davis

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When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

- Dr. Armand Hammer

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There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

- Robert A. Heinlein

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Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

- Whoopi Goldberg

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No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

- Loretta Lynn

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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

- Jonathan Winters

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

- Brian Tracy

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

- Harry Golden

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

- Anne Tyler

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Luck is the savior for the few but a demon for the masses.

- Michael Titorenko

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best quotes about luck

In Closing

Which of these 31 quotes is your favorite? Or, is there another quote about luck which you like even more? Share with me in the comments!

Well, are you feeling lucky? Or, are you at least feeling inspired? Then share this collection of quotes with those you are lucky to know. Pin these graphics, share on Facebook, or email your friends. Thanks so much!

May the luck be ever in your favor.

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