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The earliest intelligence of the travellers' safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been indulging in very dreadful fears, and trying to make Edmund participate them whenever she could get him alone; and as she depended on being the first person made acquainted with any fatal catastrophe, she had already arranged the manner of breaking it to all the others, when Sir Thomas's assurances of their both being alive and well made it necessary to lay by her agitation and affectionate preparatory speeches for a while.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.
— Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago
The best way to get rid of the negative thoughts is to crowd them out with something else bigger and more beautiful: worship of the One who holds everything in His powerful and capable hands.
— Jocelyn Green, Faith Deployed...Again: More Daily Encouragement for Military Wives
Worrying cannot change a thing, but faith can change everything.
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.
— Steve Maraboli
Chances are that whatever that you are worried about—be it a person or a thing—isn’t worried about you.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I use to worry about how hard it would be to stay the same. So I changed. Then I worried about how hard it would be to change. So, I stayed the same. Somewhere between staying the same and changing and changing and staying the same I’ve realized that worrying doesn’t change anything.
— Kimberley Alecia Smith
Get up and stop crying my little girl, if you don’t have new clothes to wear don’t worry, still stars are whispering about your beauty.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
She was a great wife...and a wonderful mother, a good daughter, a devoted sister and a truly nice person, which doesn't sound like much but it was one of her ambitions, to be a nice person, and she really got there, I think. She was always there. Or close, anyway.Of course, she did spend her first thrity-nine years worrying too much and waiting for rotten things to happen to her. Then when they did, and some of the things were obviously, really, truly rotten, she realised she could have a lot more fun not waiting for them. So you know what she did then? She just stopped seeing the rot.
— Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything
Dont worry today about yesterday because tomorrow still has enough trouble.
— Ini Udoh
I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
— Katie Dale, Someone Else's Life
Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I was so sensitive about myself and the world that I cried or shriveled up at the slightest hurt. People always told me, "You've got to get a thicker skin," like now they might say, jovially, "Let go and let God." Believe me, if I could, I would, and in the meantime I feel like stabbing you in the forehead. Teachers wrote on my report cards that I was too sensitive, excessively worried, as if this were an easily correctable condition, as if I were wearing too much of the violet toilet water little girls wore then.
— Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.
— Junot Díaz, Drown
It is no good worrying about things that are out of your hands
— Matt   Thomas
One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.
— Stephen King
Don't go looking for worry. It finds you on its own.
— Autumn Jordon, Perfect
Don’t worry about the little stuff. None of it matters. Only love matters. If you remember this, that love is always present; it will be a good life
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent!" EL.
— Evlinda Lepins
Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!
— Jarrid Wilson
Let's worry like mad. Shall we start on a worldwide basis and work down to ourselves, or start with ourselves and spread?""I'm going to do me-and-Peter and that dead
— Pamela Branch, The Wooden Overcoat
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
— Honoré de Balzac
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
— Leo Aikman
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
— Randy Alcorn
Sometimes, even when I'm trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could cause it to come crashing down.
— Jane Devin, Elephant Girl: A Human Story
Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.
— Tegan Quin
Life is too precious to worry about what could or will happen. Life is..what you make it
— E'yen A. Gardner
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.
— Bill Watterson
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
— Dalai Lama XIV
The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree
— Anchee Min, Empress Orchid
Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
— Brandon Mull, Keys to the Demon Prison
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
— Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. 
— Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. 
— Anne Tyler
Luck is the residue of design.
— John Milton
What’s so funny? (Astrid)I’m just thinking, here I am a slave who touched a star who then made him a demigod. I have to be the luckiest bastard who ever lived. (Zarek)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil
There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
— Tom Robbins
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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. (Talon Karrde)
— Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire
Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.
— Langston Hughes
All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and then the luck, the bad luck will come and everything we are, all that we can ever be, all the Einsteins and babies and love and hate, all the joy and sadness and sex and wanting and liking and disliking, all the soft summer breezes on cheeks and first snowflakes, all the Van Goghs and Rembrandts and Mozarts and Mahlers and Thomas Jeffersons and Lincolns and Ghandis and Jesus Christs, all the Cleopatras and lovemaking and riches and achievements and progress, all of that, every single damn thing that we are or ever will be is dependent on six inches of topsoil and the fact that the rain comes when it's needed and does not come when it is not needed; everything, every...single...thing comes with that luck.
— Gary Paulsen, Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass
Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!
— Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer
There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?”“Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.
— Ann Aguirre, Grimspace
I've learned to feel good when I feel good.it's better to be driven around in a red porschethan to ownone. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
— Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
— Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Exiled Queen
But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. 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, The Old Man and the Sea
I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
— Stephen Leacock
Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler's fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That's what is at the root of such ideas as "her luck has run out" and "He is due." That does not happen. For what it's worth, a good streak doesn't jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store.
— Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.
— Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.
— S.D. Crockett, After the Snow
You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.
— Bill Maher
Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.
— Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After
Nobody can be lucky all the time,so when your luck deserts you in some fashiondon't think you've been abandoned in your prime,but rather that you're saving up your ration.
— Piet Hein
It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.
— Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared
— Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.
— Roald Amundsen
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Indeed there's a woundy luck in names.
— Ben Jonson
Good luck is a residue of preparation.
— Jack Youngblood
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.
— John Fowles, Áristos
But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.
— Sakura Tsukuba, Land of the Blindfolded, Vol. 8
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
— Josephine Hart, Damage
[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.
— Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
A statement about luck is a statement about the mind, not about the world... We find what seems to have been the lucky break or the big mistake, and so we thank our lucky stars that we took the road less traveled or curse the fates that sent that little wavelet that flipped us on our backs. With hindsight, we seem to see that everything preceding the pivotal point was leading up to it, tending toward it, and that everything following it grew from it.To any observer outside the lucky one himself, however, luck is simply chance. Chance is neutral.
— Eric Kraft
Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Tuck a buck as a puck of luck.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Then one woman looked directly at her husband. "Is our place gone?" "I'm afraid so, girl," he said. "There isn't much left up there. But we're alive. We're all lucky to be alive. We'd have been dead if we'd stayed up above." "Oh, what a mercy we didn't!" she exclaimed. "How lucky we are!" Incredible though it sounds, within a few moments, a whole lot of people were congratulating each other on their extraordinary good fortune in only having lost all their worldy posessions.
— Ida Cook, Safe Passage
Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.
— Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
...luck is not to be coerced.
— Albert Camus, طاعون
No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role after the fact. Once something has occurred and we can put together a story to explain it, it starts to seem like the outcome was predestined. Statistics don't appeal to our need to understand cause and effect, which is why they are so frequently ignored or misinterpreted. Stories, on the other hand, are a rich means to communicate precisely because they emphasize cause and effect.
— Michael J. Mauboussin, The Success Equation
Not many get to see this side of him. So, if you do, know that you’re lucky.
— Liz  Newman
Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction.
— Marty Rubin
Luck is believing your lucky.
— Tennessee Williams
Magnus looked away, so as not to see the wreckage. "I wish you luck," he said. "Luck and love." Edmund made a small bow. "I bid you good day. I think we will not meet again." He walked away, into the inner reaches of the Institute. A few feet away, he wavered and paused, light from one of the narrow church windows turning his hair rich gold, and Magnus thought he would turn. But Edmund Herondale never looked back.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Aren't we lucky to be us?
— Alan Alda
If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You and Only You
It's luck. All is luck when skill's played out. It was luck left me with a face that didn't fit in Contact, it's luck that's made you a great game-player, it's luck that's put you here tonight. Neither of us were fully planned, Jernau Gurgeh; your genes determined you and your mother's genofixing made certain you would not be a cripple or mentally subnormal. The rest is chance. I was brought into being with the freedom to be myself; if what that general plan and that particular luck produced is something a majority — a majority, mark you; not all — of one SC admissions board decides is not what they just happen to want, is it my fault? Is it?""No," Gurgeh sighed, looking down."Oh, it's all so wonderful in the Culture, isn't it, Gurgeh; nobody starves and nobody dies of disease or natural disasters and nobody and nothing's exploited, but there's still luck and heartache and joy, there's still chance and advantage and disadvantage.
— Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
Never try to justify your failures based on your luck. You just didn’t work hard enough!
— Mustafa Saifuddin
Chance, Luck, Coincidence - All true; they happen! But behind them, all is a loving God in camouflage but are you in camouflage doing nothing at all?
— John M Sheehan
In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them. Attached to them are what I've borrowed, perhaps unconsciously, bit by bit, of persons I have seen or noticed or remembered in the flesh - a cast of countenance here, a manner of walking there, that jumps to the visualizing mind when a story is under way. I don't write by invasion into the life of a real person: my own sense of privacy is too strong for that; and I also know instinctively that living people to whom you are close - those known to you in ways too deep, too overflowing, ever to be plumbed outside love - do not yield to, could never fit into, the demands of a story. Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write most entirely out of yourself, that a character becomes in its own right another human being on the page.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
It's bad luck not to believe in luck.
— R.J.  Lawrence, The Xactilias Project
There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
— Jeffrey Fry
Some donkeys have amazing luck.
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Don't wait for things to happen by luck, cause its an uncertain thing anyway.
— Giridhar Alwar, My Quest For Happy Life
And as for myself, I tell you, I have had too much luck these last years. Do you believe that a man's luck can run forever? I know that it can't. For myself, I must somehow erect a bulwark against the ill fortune that is certain.
— Gontran De Poncins, Kabloona
There is no such thing called 'Luck'. Your luck takes the shape as you want to see it.
— Khair Jahan Sogra, Impact of Gender Differences on the Conflict Management Styles of Managers in Bangladesh: An Analysis
Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
— Juvenal
your honesty is your luck line
— MUNISH KUMAR
All Deserve Success
— MUNISH KUMAR
your luck line depend only On your Works
— MUNISH KUMAR
I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.
— Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.
— Reginald Hill, Ruling Passion
Luck is not real, it a simple word .
— Nitesh Sabne
Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.
— August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean
Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.
— August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean
The good die when they should live, the evil live when they should die; heroes perish and cowards escape; noble efforts do not succeed because they are noble, and wickedness is consumed in its own nature. Looking at truth is not at first a heartening experience--it becomes so, if at all, only with time, with infinite patience, and with the luck of a little personal happiness.
— William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative
— Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
You don’t talk about how the job is going until the job is done ,” Loch said.
— Patrick Weekes, The Prophecy Con
Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Dunn's Law:Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.
— Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law: Complete
I am not lucky, but I am favoured because luck runs out; but God's favour will abide with me forever.
— Gugu Mona
SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN LUCKY...OTHERS ARE LUCKY TO BE BORN...I SAY THE WORLD WAS LUCKY I WAS BORN
— joseph ejiro
Busy in a bus or lacking luck you poke to pluck a pick-up truck. Utterly shocked you choke in the lock and check if you chuck a buck or if you are stuck in the muck. So you should lurk in a day like this in such a murky lucky way. In a day when you don't know if you laugh or cry... Errands wait for those who are late in the busiest day.Such day that defies all your senses and makes you want to fly... To fly away!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away.
— Kelly Moran, Sheer Luck
We could use some good luck. That doesn’t mean we’ll get it.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Nobody is born rich everyone started from poor, that your grandfather or mother or father or grandmother are rich. This is just a luck, other people are born in poor families and become rich!
— Deyth Banger
Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.
— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Be careful how you think, everything starts from your choice, think tripple before you do something...Triple is sign for luck....
— Deyth Banger
Being lucky in love might be less a matter of luck and more a matter of paying attention.
— Sophia Dembling, Introverts in Love: The Quiet Way to Happily Ever After
I don't believe in luck or in hard work without the so called "work smart". It's not all about how you work hard but it's about how you manage your time, resources, mind to work together for a better output.
— Jayson Zabate
The 2 prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.As the tag line of my favorite dirty joke would have it: "Keep your hat on. We could wind up miles from here.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.
— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.
— S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped
I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.
— Catherine Aird
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.
— Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer
Luck came to those who left a space for it.
— Terry Pratchett
If you believe in “luck”, always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless".Be "happy", rather than "hapless".
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
There was no luck. There was only preparation meets opportunity, and recognizing the latter and knowing when to seize it was ninety percent of any great success.
— Game of Champions
Luck works only when you work. Even when it comes to lottery, only those who make the effort to go to a lottery store and buy one, stand a chance to win a lottery".
— Pradeep Sarkkar
Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.
— Michael Flynn, The Wreck of The River of Stars
Ability and luck makes success happen ,no matter what the circumstances are.
— Kishore Bansal
When people say "Oh wow, you're so lucky" ... I always wonder how they define luck. I can assure you people don't achieve their dreams because their lucky; they work day and night, with little sleep, investing their own money and working extremely hard. You don't get lucky in this life, you work hard and show people that luck is something YOU create. So, if you want to chase your own passion start listening to your own little voice, but more than anything, don't wait on getting lucky or your dream will be as misguided as your definition of success! Anyone can change their life and anyone can achieve their dreams. So work hard, get inspired and go out there and do it!
— Amanda Bernardo
Luck always favors those who are bold.
— Debasish Mridha
Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -they're lucky, they can't die again.
— Tony Harrison
Do adults realize how lucky they are?
— Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
To love is a natural instinct. To be loved is “something”. To be loved like crazy, like their life depends on you is a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. How many of us can keep their right hand on their heart and say that they have actually experienced something like that? Not many, I guess. Because you know what, once-in-a-lifetime moments, well, come once in a lifetime. You either have to extremely, enormously and tremendously lucky or have to manage to fascinate a poet or a painter or someone really very naïve or mentally unsound.
— Daya Kudari
The cards always look different when it’s your turn to play them
—  loaded with subtly different possibilities.
But sometimes it is just when everything seems to be lost that we experience a presentiment that may save us; one has knocked on all the doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one may enter and for which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years, and it opens.
— Marcel Proust, Time Regained
A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.
— Margi Preus, West of the Moon
Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.
— Amy Neftzger, The Ferryman
luck is distributed at six in the morning
— Luis Zamarro Fraile
Luck, Love and Life.The three of them are interrelated.Once you are in love, luck favors you and your life takes the good path at every turn.Once you get luck on your side, you find your life to be worthy and love at your doorstep.Once you realise the importance of your life, love comes all the way to you and brings luck all along.
— Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.
— Lee Child, Killing Floor
Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless.
— Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
Daughter," said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon
As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.
— Theodore Roosevelt
People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky .
— Muhammad Saqib
Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.
— Willis Turner
This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey’s Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.
— John L. Monk, Kick
A strong man can make his own luck.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.
— Kartik Mehta
He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity
— Randy Pausch
There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
— Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.
— Dean Koontz, Innocence
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.
— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
One makes one's own luck, but you have to give the universe the opportunity to help you.
— Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras
The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.
— Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
— Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams, Volume III, Books 11-14.
According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. When she tried to remove it, she noticed that the cocoon had begun to unravel in the hot liquid. She handed the loose end to her maidservant and told her to walk. The servant went out of the princess's chamber, and into the palace courtyard, and through the palace gates, and out of the Forbidden City, and into the countryside a half mile away before the cocoon ran out. (In the West, this legend would slowly mutate over three millennia, until it became the story of a physicist and an apple. Either way, the meanings are the same: great discoveries, whether of silk or of gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.)
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.
— Robert Koch
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
— Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere
It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be
— Matthew Woodring Stover, Blade of Tyshalle
He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he looked like that. He smiled. 'With luck we shall make it, and without luck we shall not.' 
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.
— Marcia Clark, Guilt by Degrees
It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another
— Guy Gavriel Kay, River of Stars
Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.
— Terry Pratchett
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
— Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
— E.B. White, Here Is New York
It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature
— Tennessee Williams
What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?
— Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
Luck is a strong horse
—  it can carry man to very distant places!
Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gimp and speech impediment, lived a long life doing pretty much what he wanted. He hadn't drawn the best of cards, but he'd played his hand darned well, so what was there to grieve over?
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Luck is a light bulb that is switched on only once, after it switches off, it leaves a gap of regret and powerlessness
— Jasper Rules
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
— Mary  Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting
If you are not lucky enough, you can’t reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need ‘luck’ to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
That's like being a hockey player born on January I.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.
— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth,Wednesday the best day of all,Thursday for crosses,Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.
— Folk Rhyme
Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
— Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
Luck is a point where hard work meets the opportunity
— Firoz Thairinil
You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.
— Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
— Phyllis Bottome
While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.
— Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology
Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
— Stephen King
Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.
— Nabil Basma
Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation
— Nabil Basma
I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.
— Sonya Bateman, Master of None
This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.
— Elizabeth Berg, Joy School
I’m so far from lucky, I’m kissing its ass from the other side.
— Sonya Bateman, Master of None
You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that-- it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.
— Michelle Diener, The Emperor's Conspiracy
Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence have had good luck. The former are better off than the latter in two respects only, whereas the poor but lucky man has the advantage in many ways; for though the rich have the means to satisfy their appetites and to bear calamities, and the poor have not, the poor, if they are lucky, are more likely to keep clear of trouble, and will have besides the blessings of a sound body, health, freedom from trouble, fine children, and good looks.Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word “happy” in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky.
— Herodotus, The Histories
Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.
— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work
— Celso Cukierkorn
I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck
— Rob Reger, The Lost Days
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria:1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and amenable ... They do not create scenes over a hammer or a mislaid eraser; they do not make you feel they are conferring a great benefit on you when they live with you, and they don't make a scandal when they leave. (...)2) They have compassion for other people besides beggars and cats. Their hearts suffer the pain of what is hidden to the naked eye. (...)3) They respect other people's property, and therefore pay their debts.4) They are not devious, and they fear lies as they fear fire. They don't tell lies even in the most trivial matters. To lie to someone is to insult them, and the liar is diminished in the eyes of the person he lies to. Civilized people don't put on airs; they behave in the street as they would at home, they don't show off to impress their juniors. (...)5) They don't run themselves down in order to provoke the sympathy of others. They don't play on other people's heartstrings to be sighed over and cosseted ... that sort of thing is just cheap striving for effects, it's vulgar, old hat and false. (...)6) They are not vain. They don't waste time with the fake jewellery of hobnobbing with celebrities, being permitted to shake the hand of a drunken [judicial orator], the exaggerated bonhomie of the first person they meet at the Salon, being the life and soul of the bar ... They regard prases like 'I am a representative of the Press!!' -- the sort of thing one only hears from [very minor journalists] -- as absurd. If they have done a brass farthing's work they don't pass it off as if it were 100 roubles' by swanking about with their portfolios, and they don't boast of being able to gain admission to places other people aren't allowed in (...) True talent always sits in the shade, mingles with the crowd, avoids the limelight ... As Krylov said, the empty barrel makes more noise than the full one. (...)7) If they do possess talent, they value it ... They take pride in it ... they know they have a responsibility to exert a civilizing influence on [others] rather than aimlessly hanging out with them. And they are fastidious in their habits.
— Anton Chekhov, A Life in Letters
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
— Wendell Berry
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
— Orson Welles
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
— H.G. Wells
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
— Robert E. Howard
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
— O. Henry
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
— Michel Foucault