Luck Quotes

“It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.”
― Al Masudi, From The Meadows of Gold

“Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.”
― Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

“An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.”
― Horace

“Luck is for fools with no plan.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Heirs of Secrets

“She looked away. You make it like it was the coin. But you're the one.
It could have gone either way.
The coin didnt have no say. It was just you.
Perhaps. But look at it my way. I got here the same way the coin did.
She sat sobbing softly. She didnt answer.
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
Everthing I ever thought has turned out different, she said. There aint the least part of my life I could
of guessed. Not this, not none of it.
I know.
You wouldnt of let me off noway.
I had no say in the matter. Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing.
Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn.
No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A
person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the
shape of your path was visible from the beginning.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

[Quoting Ecclesiastes 9:11 in the epigraph to the Introduction.]”
― David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

“Luck is unpredictable, but talent tends to take advantage of it.”
― Tom Selleck, Tom Selleck You Never Know: A Memoir

“Some call it luck, others say grace... but I add a bit of sauce to say unmerited favor. It's that extra ingredient you need in life.”
― Kingsley ofosu-Ampong

“Luck is what the divine one is nudging you towards.”
― Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi

“Luck of the successful ones is built on failures along the road taken.”
― Abdul Quayyum Khan Kundi

“Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once.”
― Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

“Luck is only found where there is absolute courage.”
― Helena Roerich, The Secret World Government: Cosmic Guidance for the Leader

“Luck is undoubtedly a massive multiplying factor to your efforts. If you have a good luck, obviously the product will be higher as compared to having bad luck. But in school we were taught something, really important. Multiply anything by zero and it results in zero. So what do you think the result of great luck and zero effort shall be?”
― Anubhav Srivastava, Inspirational Sayings: Get Super Motivated and Achieve Amazing Success through Inspirational Sayings!

“Believing that you created or manifested or your own success 100 percent, does not make you right, it just shows you are blinded by ego. Our egos are too fragile to admit that anything other than our efforts could make us “successful.”

I am NOT saying everything in life is luck. What I am saying is – Yes, you deserve credit for swimming and struggling in the ocean for as long as you did, but you need to be humble enough to admit that you didn't create the wave that carried you to the shore. You also need to thank your good fortunes that a shark didn't eat you.”
― Anubhav Srivastava, UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life

“If you have mostly seen your hard work and strategy pay off, you may probably still be under the illusion that you are self-made and I won’t blame you for that. I have had plenty of such illusions myself.

It is only when you go through circumstances when the SAME hard work that used to work, now gives you failure after failure, will you acknowledge the role of timing and luck.

This is not a "negative" mentality, if anything it is a mentality that helps you tame your ego and be more sensitive to those around you who are not so fortunate.

The first step to bring about positive change in your life, which is confidence if you have constantly been failing, or humility if you have constantly been winning, is to UNLEARN the FALSE notions that modern society has brainwashed you with.

Not everyone who is at the top deserves to be there, and almost no one at the bottom truly deserves to be there.”
― Anubhav Srivastava, UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life

“A lot of things that happen in life are random.

Let’s explore this through an analogy: Grains of Sand in a bucket

If you pour sand into a bucket, statistically, there will be some grains on the top, most in the middle and some on the bottom. All grains can’t be at the top. So, does it mean the grains of sands at the top special/better than the ones at the bottom? or is it just blind randomness at play?

You might say the human mind is not a grain of sand, it has talent and the capacity to think.

Well, what determined your talents and thoughts? Did you choose them or were they too influenced by factors beyond your control?

I would argue that your talents and your thoughts themselves are not conjured up by you alone, but are also the result of luck and circumstances.”
― Anubhav Srivastava, UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life

“People who dismissed the success of others as luck were people who had failed. It was a way to absolve themselves of accountability for failure and discount someone else's role in their own accomplishments. And the idea that success was the result of luck also made other people feel entitled, as if the 'lucky' ones should share their luck without reservation. After all, it could have happened to anyone.”
― Paul Stanley, Face the Music: A Life Exposed

“A person feels "lucky" because his desires are satisfied; And a person feels "unlucky" because his desires have been frustrated.”
― 李笑来, 把时间当作朋友

“La chance contre le destin, on n’y peut rien.”
― Keva Epale, Pensées (pas si) Volatiles: Le Petit Livre de Proverbes qui Éveille la Réflexion. Volume 1: Pensées inspirantes et positives pour tous.

“If you have been honored in some way, it is to honor others with the most valuable thing you possess.”
― Geverson Ampolini

“For once in his life Dixon resolved to bet on his luck. What luck had come his way in the past he’d distrusted, stingily held on to until the chance of losing his initial gain was safely past. It was time to stop doing that.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“What brought us together? I sometimes wonder. Was it chance? Fate? Luck?
I often marvel at the randomness of it all, the tangled threads that wove us into something stronger than our individual selves.
That a time so dark could provide such light is a miracle, I think.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Family

“In the Germanic idea, the moral estimate is always ready to rise to the surface; in fact, for the expression of goodness, piety, and uprightness, the Teutons have no better words than lucky (Anglo-Saxon sœlig, Gothic séls, and similar terms), which embrace the idea of wealth and health, happiness and wisdom.”
― Vilhelm Grønbech, The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2

“I took a walk along the historic coast of Normandy in the country of France.

It was a lovely day for strolling along the seashore. Men were sleeping on the sand, some of them sleeping forever. Men were floating in the water, but they didn’t know they were in the water, for they were dead.

The water was full of squishy little jellyfish about the size of your hand. Millions of them. In the center each of them had a green design exactly like a four-leaf clover. The good-luck emblem. Sure. Hell yes.”
― Ernie Pyle

“There was a lot of chance in love -- a lot of luck -- but there was not too much point in thinking about that, other than to thank whatever gods one believed in, or blind fate if one believed in none, for the way things had worked out.”
― Alexander Mccall Smith (Author), The Geometry of Holding Hands

“Luck is when preparedness and doggedness meet with opportunity. Luck doesn't favor the idle. You got to be out there doing something for luck to find you.”
― Akin Akinbodunse

“When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.”
― William Shakespeare, King John

“If (a girl or) a woman rejects me, I wish her best of Luck to find someone better.”
― Sino Melo

“I believe that luck often comes from hard work and preparation. By putting in the effort and staying focused, I create opportunities that feel like ‘luck’ when they come to fruition.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“On the other hand, my horse and my rifles could also still give me away. It was well known that Old Shatterhand owned a large, heavy, double-barreled gun called Bear-killer, and a Henry Carbine, and that he was riding a black stallion he had received from Winnetou as a gift. Luckily, the commander was not very bright and didn’t make the connection. He returned to his tent without further questions.”
― Karl May, Old Surehand