Cowards have no luck. [ Elizabeth Kulman ]
Good luck comes by cuffing. [ Proverb ]
There's luck in odd numbers. [ Samuel Lover ]
Luck is the idol of the idle. [ Proverb ]
Care and diligence bring luck. [ Proverb ]
A stout heart crushes ill luck. [ Proverb ]
More by luck than good guiding. [ Proverb ]
Ill luck is good for something. [ Proverb ]
Bad luck often brings good luck. [ Proverb ]
The more pluck, the better luck!
Luck is everything in promotion. [ Cervantes ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck. [ Franklin ]
Good luck reaches farther than long arms. [ Proverb ]
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea. [ Proverb ]
My right eye itches, some good luck is near. [ Dryden ]
The worse luck now, the better another time. [ Proverb ]
Luck, mere luck, may make even madness wisdom. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Give your son luck and then throw him into the sea. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Knavery, without luck, is the worst trade in the world. [ Proverb ]
Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it. [ German Proverb ]
He that dares not venture must not complain of ill luck. [ Proverb ]
Even ill luck itself is good for something in a wise man's hand. [ Proverb ]
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
If your luck goes on at this rate, you may very well hope to be hanged. [ Proverb ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. [ Franklin ]
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which Nature never pardons. [ Emerson ]
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. [ Cobden ]
I do not believe in luck in war, any more than in luck in business. Luck is a small matter; may affect a battle or a movement, but not a campaign or a career. [ U. S. Grant ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
There is a Russian proverb which says that misfortune is next door to stupidity; and it will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]