77 Good Luck Sayings
77 Good Luck Sayings and 7 Good Luck Wishes
plus Good Luck in the News
By Twinty Karat
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Here is a collection of 77 Good Luck Sayings gathered by Twinty Karat. Also you’ll find 7 Good Luck Wishes from famous and no so famous persons that you can use to send good luck wishes to someone. And not to ignore the bad with the good are included a few bad or mostly bad luck and a few mixed luck quotes.
77 Good Luck Sayings
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time. ~ Eric Hoffer
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. ~ Juvenal
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~ Turkish Proverb
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ~ James A. Garfield
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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck — who keeps right on going — is the man who is there when the good luck comes — and is ready to receive it. ~ Robert Collier
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And wheresoe’er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
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As good luck would have it. ~ William Shakespeare
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. ~ Josh Billings
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Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck ~ Buddha
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Being generous, just helping one’s relatives and being blameless in one’s actions; this is the best good luck. ~ Buddha
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
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Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck. ~ Og Mandino
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Everything in life is luck. ~ Donald Trump
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Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee! ~ William Shakespeare
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. ~ Ernest Hemingway
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ~ William Shakespeare
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Go and wake up your luck. ~ Persian Saying
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Good luck beats early rising ~ Irish Saying
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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ~ John Milton
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Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides. ~ Irish Saying
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Good luck has its storms. ~ George Lucas
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Good luck is a lazy man’s estimate of a worker’s success. ~ Anon.
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Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good luck is often with the man who doesn’t include it in his plans ~ Author unknown
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ~ James Russell Lowell
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Good luck seldom comes in pairs but bad things never walk (occur) alone ~ Chinese Proverbs
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Guests bring good luck with them. ~ Turkish Proverb
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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? ~ William Dean Howells
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy. ~ Michael Bloomberg
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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ~ Jean Cocteau
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I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I’m the luckiest cat on the planet. ~ Hugh Hefner
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~ John Heywood
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~ Stanislaw J. Lec
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ~ Maya Angelou
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If you can’t take a good kicking, you shouldn’t parade how much luckier you are than other people. ~ Charles Saatchi
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In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in” ~ German Proverb
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. ~ Joseph Conrad
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It’s a funny thing,the more I practice the luckier I get. ~ Arnold Palmer
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It’s hard to detect good luck, it looks so much like something you’ve earned. ~ Frank A. Clark
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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
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Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish. ~ Ovid
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ~ Ray A. Kroc
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Luck is also in your Mind: If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. ~ Henry Ford
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Luck is believing you’re lucky. ~ Tennessee Williams
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Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. ~ Don Sutton
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Luck is the residue of design. ~ John Milton
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ~ Seneca on Good Luck
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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~ Langston Coleman
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Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Swedish Proverb
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Luck: when your burst of energy doesn’t run afoul of someone else’s. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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May good luck pursue you each morning and night. ~ Irish Blessings
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May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night. ~ Irish Blessings
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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. ~ George S. Clason
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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. ~ William Feather
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Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. ~ Orson Welles
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Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ~ John Heywood
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Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart. ~ Saiom Shriver
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Optimism is the foundation of courage and good luck. ~ Nicholas Murray Butler
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People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. ~ Anne Tyler
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Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck ~ Buddha
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. ~ B. Sher
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The day You decide to do it is your lucky day. ~ Japanese Proverb
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ~ Channing Pollock
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~ Wilson Mizner
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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~ Harry Golden
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Then here goes another,” says he, “to make sure, For there’s luck in odd numbers,” says Rory O’More. ~ Samuel Lover
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This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death. ~ William Shakespeare
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. ~ Larry King
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To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. ~ Buddha
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck. ~ Buddha
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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. ~ John Hay
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? ~ Jean Cocteau
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When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. ~ Dr. Armand Hammer
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When it comes to luck, you make your own. ~ Bruce Springsteen
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You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it’s good. ~ Ogden Nash
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7 Good Luck Wishes
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1) For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day. ~ Irish Blessings
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2) Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck ~ Buddha
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3) May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night. ~ Irish Blessings
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4) Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don’t depend on it. ~ Author Unknown
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5) Sometimes things don’t go our way but you shouldn’t worry – good luck comes to those who wait. So here’s my good luck wishes to end the wait and bring on the good luck. ~ Charles L Harmon
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6) Never give up, Never stop dreaming. Of course with you that will never happen, so I’ll just send a few good luck wishes to turn your dreams into reality. ~ Charles L Harmon
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7) I wish you the best in life; much happiness and prosperity, plus lots of good luck coming your way! ~ Twinty Karat
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More Luck Quotes and Sayings
Ladybugs or ladybirds are lucky
Of course luck is not always good. Sometimes it is bad, sometimes indifferent, sometimes you just cannot make sense of it. To make matters worse there are people, maybe even more people than believe in luck, that just don’t consider luck at all. To them it’s a matter of karma. Somewhere along the line there is destiny and good fortune along with other terms similar to luck.
So here are some of the quotes and sayings you’ll find elsewhere classified as pertaining to luck.
What Luck or Thereabouts
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. ~ James Thomas Fields
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford’s approach, and in her invention, and Ford’s wife’s distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket. ~ William Shakespeare
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
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Good fortune does not happen because of luck. ~ Catherine Pulsifer
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. ~ Cervantes
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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. ~ John Heywood
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I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I’ll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me. ~ William Shakespeare
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If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Elephants (with trunk up) bring good luck
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. ~ Albert Einstein
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Luck is the residue of design. ~ Branch Rickey
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ~ Demosthenes
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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarreling on the line. ~ Edward Morgan Forster
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Watch out when you’re getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain’t in luck. ~ Joel Chandler Harris
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When God throws the dice are loaded. ~ Greek Proverb
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Wisdom is the winner over good luck ~ Juvenal
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You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it’s good. ~ Ogden Nash
Mostly Bad Luck or Thereabouts
Not bad luck but generally used as a warning of danger, particularly in regard to poisonous substances.
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As ill-luck would have it. ~ Cervantes
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ~ George Eliot
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Bad luck is universal. Don’t take it personally. ~ Solomon Short
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Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit. ~ R. E. Shay
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Don’t you know by now, luck don’t lead to anything or why you keep on moving ~ Steve Winwood
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In bad luck hold out; in good luck, hold in” ~ German Proverb
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My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. ~ Woody Allen
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. ~ Orson Welles
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The international radiation symbol (also known as trefoil). Not a bad luck symbol, but you will have bad luck with your health if you ignore this symbol.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. ~ Don Marquis
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Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ~ Douglas Jerrold
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. ~ J. Christopher Herold
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Biohazard symbol used since 1966. Bad luck will occur if you are too close to hazardous materials.
When it comes to luck, you make your own. ~ Bruce Springsteen
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Good Fortune Quotes
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By good fortune, I have met the Saint Guru. I have found the Immortal Lord within the home of my own self. ~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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By perfect good fortune, one meets the True Guru, when one’s destiny is awakened. ~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. ~ William Hazlitt
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Everyone, all over the world, longs for the True Guru. Without the good fortune of destiny, the Blessed Vision of His Darshan is not obtained. ~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference ~ Author unknown
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. ~ Thomas Alva Edison
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Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure ~ Aristotle
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. ~ Walt Whitman
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ”This is a misfortune” but ”To bear this worthily is good fortune.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ~ Anatole France
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife ~ Jane Austen
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It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We lost 250 of our best young men. I felt every one. ~ Margaret Thatcher
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It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth – which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives – they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond… ~ The Talmud
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. ~ Marilyn French
Bits and Bytes about Good Luck
Here’s some Good Luck buzz floating around the ‘Net and other places. These are news clips of articles where “good luck” is mentioned. See who is getting good luck wishes in the news.
Four Leaf Clovers bring you good luck, don't they?
Click the titles to go to the actual article.
Jan 11 – 12, 2012
Happy New Year or should that be Good Luck!
Rundtownnews.co.uk
IT WOULD be remiss of me not to start the first column of 2012 without wishing everyone Happy New Year, although if the midnight greetings from our part of the world are anything to go by ‘Good Luck‘ was the most uttered phrase that I heard. …
Newcastle United Thursday Links: Community Help Edition (or, Good Luck, Lad …
Coming Home Newcastle (blog)
Good luck and get better quick, Sammy! “I don’t know if he’s going to be good enough for Newcastle, but there was a lot of scouts there, and hopefully somebody will see that he’s got to be better than the level he’s playing at. …
Trying to use GPS devices to navigate the ICC? Good luck
Washington Post (blog)
By Michael S. Rosenwald Here is a if-a-tree-falls-in-the-woods question for our modern age: If a major new highway doesn’t show up on GPS, does it exist? My GPS doesn’t know what the #ICC is. I was scolded for 20 minutes. The tweeter is referring to …
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