Life can be challenging and sometimes a bit of luck is all it takes to turn things around, whether it’s landing a dream job, scoring a new apartment or achieving a creative breakthrough.
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, symbols like four-leaf clovers and rainbows spark conversations about luck.
This concept has deep historical roots and permeates pop culture, from movies to business and even love stories.
Engaging with these varied insights through famous quotes can inspire and entertain, offering a reflective look at how luck influences different facets of life.
Here are some of the best Luck Quotes.
Best Luck Quotes
1. “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.” ~ Abdul Kalam.
2. “Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.” ~ Brian Tracy.
3. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” ~ Tennessee Williams.
4. “Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world’s failures.” ~ Henry Ford.
5. “You make your Own luck.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch.
6. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” ~ Thomas Jefferson.
7. “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” ~ Ernest Hemingway.
8. “Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.” ~ Woody Allen.
Famous Luck Quotes
9. “Concentration attracts luck factor.” ~ Amit Ray.
10. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” ~ Thomas A. Edison.
11. “Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.” ~ Earl Nightingale
12. “Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.” ~ Robert Greene
13. “The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.” ~ Tony Robbins
14. “The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
15. “When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you’re out of harmony with intention.” ~ Aldous Huxley
16. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” ~ Harry Golden.
Inspiring Luck Quotes
17. “Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?” ~ Earl Nightingale
18. “It’s never too late to change your luck.” ~ Diplo
19. “Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.” ~ Neil Gaiman
20. “Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.” ~ Charles Bukowski
21. “We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.” ~ Franz Kafka
22. “There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness.” ~ George S. Patton Jr.
Top Luck Quotes
23. “There’s no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.” ~ Steve Harvey
24. “For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.” ~ Albert Camus
25. “A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.” ~ Jane Austen
26. “I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born – but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.” ~ Slavoj Žižek
27. “The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.” ~ David Einhorn
28. “In New York you’ve got to have all the luck.” ~ Charles Bukowski
29. “Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.” ~ Stephen King
30. “Be grateful for luck.” ~ Eubie Blake
31. “He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
32. “The Goddess Fortune is the devil’s servant, ready to kiss any one’s ass.” ~ William Blake.
Popular Luck Quotes
33. “Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.” ~ Bill Walton
34. “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
35. “Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.” ~ Colin Powell
36. “Some folk want their luck buttered.” ~ Thomas Hardy.
37. “The honester the man, the worse luck.” ~ John Ray.
38. “You have to have talent to some extent – I certainly hope I have talent – but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.” ~ Robert Jordan.
39. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” ~ Barbara Sher.
40. “If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.” ~ Sophocles.
41. The harder I work, the luckier I get. ~ Samuel Goldwyn.
42. I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work. ~ Maria Sharapova.
43. You make your own luck. ~ Ernest Hemingway.