More Quotes About Luck for St. Patrick’s Day

May you feel the luck of the Irish

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, but it doesn’t need to be a special day for you to feel lucky. In fact, we all have luck all the time — whether good or bad — and these quotes explore what luck really means.

1. “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” -Orson Welles

2. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” -Harry Golden

3. “Oh, I am fortune’s fool!” -William Shakespeare

4. “Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.” -Christopher Hitchens

5. “Luck is the savior for the few, but a demon for the masses.” -Michael Titorenko

6. “The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” -Channing Pollock

7. “Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck.” -Unknown

8. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” -Tennessee Williams

9. “Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” -E.B. White

10. “Concentration attracts luck factor.” -Amit Ray

11. “Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence, but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.” -Jessica Sorensen

12. “Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.” -Tig Notaro

13. “Life is not easy. We all have problems — even tragedies — to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don’t have the wit to deal with the problems of life.” -Joan Lowery Nixon

14. “I’ve always believed in luck. I love the fact that people can change their lives instantly.” -Fiona Barton

15. “Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.” -Serena Williams

16. “Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.” -Langston Coleman

17. “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

18. “Don’t luck into success.” -Anonymous

19. “Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.” -David Levien

20. “My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it’s dependent on me to keep trying after I have failed.” -Mark Warner

21. “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” -Cormac McCarthy

22. “You don’t get lucky while sitting in the sofa with arms crossed doing nothing. You can be lucky only when you are prepared.” -Nesta Jojoe Erskine

23. “If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?” -Stanisław Jerzy Lec

24. “Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again…said a shadow at the window…and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time….But the wolf…the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.” -Emily Carroll

25. “Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.” -James Altucher

26. “Luck has a peculiar habit of connecting with the man on the move….” -L.W. Allwyn-Schmidt

27. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

28. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” -Barbara Sher

29. “If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.” -Catherynne M. Valente

30. “I’ve found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.” -Timothy Zahn

31. “Spencer: I’m looking for a four-leaf clover so I can be lucky. God: Why don’t you just staple a leaf onto a three-leaf clover? Spencer: You’re saying I should cheat? God: No. I’m saying in this world, you have to make your own luck.” -Tommy Blaze

32. “People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.” -Anne Tyler

33. “A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.” -James A. Garfield

34. “Good luck beats early rising.” -Proverb

35. “Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.” -Jackie Stewart

36. “We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want — or near enough.” -Roald Dahl

37. “All psychological studies indicate that a person’s luck is influenced by his state of mind.” -June Sawyer

38. “Being deeply learned and skilled, being well-trained and using well-spoken words: This is good luck.” -Buddha

39. “What do you get if you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? You get a rash of good luck.” -Joseph Rosenbloom

40. “Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. “Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.” -Preity Zinta

42. “Good luck is the willing handmaid of an upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.” -James Russell Lowell

43. “Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.” -Kurt Vonnegut

44. “You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.” -Raymond Aubrac

45. “Luck is looking for a needle in a haystack and coming out with the farmer’s daughter.” -Phyllis Martin

46. “The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.” -Nick Cummins

47. “I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.” -Hunter S. Thompson 48. “Luck never made a man wise.” -Seneca

49. “Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” -Garrison Keillor

50. “Good things come to those who wait.” -Anonymous

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