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Japanese Proverb

Tsuki ni muragumo, hana ni arashi Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms

Will Durant

Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we have botched and bungled our lives, and we cast the blame upon the environment or the world, which have no tongues to utter a defense. The mature man ac

Samuel Goldwyn

???The harder I work the luckier I get.???

Stephen Leacock

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

Brian Tracy

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

Lucille Ball

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.

Don Schula

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Howard Schultz

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

WILLIAM J. MICKLE: _Manner's Wife._

For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.

Miguel de Cervantes

As ill-luck would have it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Adolf Hitler

What luck for rulers, that men do not think.

Jean Cocteau

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like

George Lucas

In my experience, there is no such thing as 'luck.'

Unknown

You never have a chance for your luck to operate if you don't take risks.

Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Larry King

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

P. J. O'Rourke

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Neil Peart

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Thomas Fuller

Care and diligence bring luck.

Earl Wilson

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

Steven Wright

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyerthinks he can get me five.

Denis Watley

Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.

Anne Tyler

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

Steven Wright

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

Eubie

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Stephen Leacock

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Seve Ballesteros

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.

Stephen Butler Leacock

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

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Office Space

Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.

James Arthur Baldwin

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

Steven Wright

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.

John Hay

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

The Talmud

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

Samuel Goldwyn

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Smiles

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Barbara Bush

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Henry Van Dyke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. - from Fisherman's Luck

Kareem Abdul-Jabar

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Oscar Wilde

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.

Richard Milhous Nixon

'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.'

Henry J. Kaiser

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck ??“ Just steady and earnest and full of pluck. The man who wins is the man who works, Who neither labor nor trouble shirks; Who uses his hands, his h

Erica Jong

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Jerry Della Femina

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

Richard Bach

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Srully D. Blotnick

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

John W. Hanley

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

It's bad luck to be superstitious.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

He who does not venture has no luck.

Go and wake up your luck.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.

I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Luck is the residue of design.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

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

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Good luck beats early rising.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Dumb luck beats sound planning every time. Trust me.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

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

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

"Hello, girls! Good luck with the hold up!" -- Crow T. Robot

"Blind, stupid, simple, doo-da, clueless LUCK!" - Two-Face

"Guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war." -Clausewitz

"Good luck, boy. Beware Justice." -- Madame Xanadu

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

"Good luck, @FN@! Impact minus 30 seconds..."

"I haven't had that much luck with women." - Batman, to Chase Meridian

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

"Good luck with the heroin." Crow T. Robot

"Good luck. You're gonna die." -- Mike Nelson

"Flowers for a Mister... John Luck Pikkerd?" --Q

"See? My luck isn't bad! This clothesline broke my <thwip> faaalll..."

"Flowers for a mister John-Luck Pickird?" - Q

"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck." Garfield

"Luck be a lizard tonight!" -- Joel Robinson

"Flowers for a John Luck Pickerd......" - Q