Luck Quotes

Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama

Good night, and good luck.
- Edward R. Murrow

Nothing goes by luck in composition.
It allows of no tricks.
The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Henry David Thoreau

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe
that had the lion's heart.
I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln

Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon

No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain

I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie