32 Good Luck Quotes for the Courageous

We decide who we want to be and when. Jim Woods 

We decide who we want to be and when. Jim Woods 

Luck is the dissipating line between survival and disaster. Only the brave who dream with their eyes wide open and their feet moving forward manage to keep their balance making all look easy to weak minds.  Here are quotes that helped me when I have been down. Thank you so much for sharing. 

  1. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare
  2. Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. I failed my way to success.” Thomas Edison
  4. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford
  5. Luck to me is something else: Hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. Lucille Ball
  6. Alas! Earwax! Albus Dumbledore
  7. You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Cormac Mccarthy
  8. The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree. Anchee Min
  9. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai Lama XIV
  10. I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
  11. I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side. Roman Payne
  12. 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
  13. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden
  14. The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. Douglas Macarthur
  15. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  16. Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. Hunter S. Thompson
  17. The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. Wilson Mizner
  18. Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. Mark Twain
  19. Luck never gives; it only lends. Swedish Proverb
  20. Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. Langston Coleman
  21. It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. Frank A. Clark
  22. People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. Anne Tyler
  23. Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues. James Vila Blake
  24. What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. Robertson Davies
  25. Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it. Patrick Dewitt
  26. Luck is not chance. It's Toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson
  27. Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid
  28. Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.  E.B. White
  29. Luck is the residue of despair, misfortune and then. Jim Woods
  30. Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  31. Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. R. E. Shay
  32. I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.  Samuel Goldwyn

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