Luck Quotes

“It's bad luck not to believe in luck.”

“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.”

“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”

“Behind bad luck comes good luck.”

“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”

“Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.”

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.”

“Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.”