Quotes About Luck
Because St. Patrick’s Day is coming up
We associate St. Patrick’s Day with being lucky, but what does luck really mean? These quotes explore what it means to be lucky — and what it means to be out of luck.
1. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
-Benjamin Franklin
2. “Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.”
-Eliyahu Goldratt
3. “Chance favors the prepared mind.”
-Louis Pasteur
4. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
-Dalai Lama XIV
5. “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
6. “No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.”
-Margaret Atwood
7. “Here’s the thing about luck. You don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.”
-Alice Hoffman
8. “Luck never gives; it only lends.”
-Proverb
