Top 40 Luck Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Brian Tracy

2. “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

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3. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.”

— Tennessee Williams

4. “You make your own luck.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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6. “Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.”

— Earl Nightingale

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7. “Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.”

— Woody Allen

8. “Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world’s failures.”

— Henry Ford

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9. “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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10. “It’s never too late to change your luck.”

— Diplo

11. “Concentration attracts luck factor.”

— Amit Ray

12. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”

— Harry Golden

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13. “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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14. “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.”

— Barbara Sher

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15. “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

16. “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

17. “Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

— Stephen King

18. “Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?”

— Earl Nightingale

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19. “Mastery is not a question of genetics or luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stir you from within.”

— Robert Greene

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20. “The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

21. “Be grateful for luck.”

— Eubie Blake

22. “The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.”

— Tony Robbins

23. “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

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24. “Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.”

— Colin Powell

25. “Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.”

— Bill Walton

26. “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

27. “For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”

— Albert Camus

28. “The honester the man, the worse luck.”

— John Ray

29. “There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

30. “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

31. “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

32. “A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

— Jane Austen

33. “The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.”

— David Einhorn

34. “In New York you’ve got to have all the luck.”

— Charles Bukowski

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35. “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

36. “He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.”

— Ernest Hemingway

37. “The Goddess Fortune is the devil’s servant, ready to kiss any one’s ass.”

— William Blake

38. “Some folk want their luck buttered.”

— Thomas Hardy

39. “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

40. “If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.”

— Sophocles