Good luck is a lazy man’s estimate of a worker’s success.
~Author Unknown

Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.
~R. E. Shay

I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.
~Michael Bloomberg

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
~William Shakespeare

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
~E. B. White

I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I’m living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.
~Hugh Hefner

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
~George Santayana

A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
~Eric Hoffer

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
~Lucille Ball

Diligence is the mother of good luck
~ Benjamin Franklin

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.
~Seneca

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
~Wilson Mizner

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone’s ‘good luck.’ You’ll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking. ~ David J. Schwartz

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
~ Dr. Armand Hammer

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
~Edward Gibbon

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

We all dream a lot – some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it’s real. You are what you feel.
~Tim Rice

You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it’s good.
~ Ogden Nash

I am persuaded that luck and timing have, in my case, been very important.
~ Mike Wallace

Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?
~Jean Cocteau

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
~ Marian Erickson

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

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. … They win battles, and they make me lucky.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
~ Maya Angelou

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
~Edward Gibbon

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
~ Mark Twain

Maybe I’m lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
~ Ashleigh Brilliant

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
~Edward Gibbon

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
~ Flora Whittemore

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
~John Barrymore

Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
~ Voltaire

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
~John Lennon

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.
- Louisa May Alcott

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~ Satchel Paige

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
~Brecht

Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
~Albert Camus

The faults of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive-
~Bhagavad Gita

A sharp tongue sometimes cuts its own throat.
~ Jim Scancarelli

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
~Toni Morrison Quotes

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
~Edgar Watson Howe

By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life.
~ Jean Baptiste Girard

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
~ Barbara Walters

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
~Brigham Young

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf

When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.
~Sathya Sai Baba

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
~Stanislaw Lec

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects
~Will Rogers

Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity, which is derived from a sense of independence.
~ Maria Montessori
Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
~Albert Camus

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
~Brecht

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever you are be a good one.
~Abraham Lincoln

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
~ Author Unknown

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.
~ Chuck Close

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business.
~Ann Landers

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
~ Betty Smith

All philosophy in two words, – sustain and abstain.
~ Epictetus

If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.
~ Mignon McLaugh

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
~Jimmy Johnson

Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.
~ W. Migner

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~ Henry B. Adams

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
~John C. Collins

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
~Texan Proverb

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go.
~Author Unknown

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair
~Chinese Proverb

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
~Henry David Thoreau

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
~Janis Joplin

It’s better to fight for something than against something.
~Author Unknown

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
~African Proverb

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
~Jonathan Kozel

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
~Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
~Doug Larson

During a carnival, people put masks over their masks.
~Xavier Forneret

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
~George Santayana

Isolation is always a good breeding ground for prejudice.
~Malcolm Hedding

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
~Norman Cousins

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
~ Bible

Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost.
~Edward Counsel

He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
~Bible

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
~Bible

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
~John Buchan

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
~ Bible

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
~Albert Einstein

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
~Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
~ Bible

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
~Lao Tze

Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side.
~Yiddish Proverb

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
~John Henry Cardinal Newman

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
~Oscar Wilde

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.
~Frank Zappa

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
~Philip Moeller

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
~William Penn

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
~David Starr Jordan

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
~James Boswell

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
~Confucius

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, pave another one.
~Dolly Parton

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Alfred Tennyson

Wisdom begins in wonder.
~Socrates

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
~William James

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~Tom Wilson

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
~Friedrich Nietzsche

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.
~Cullen Hightower

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
~Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), Odes

Wisdom is a sacred communion.
~Victor Hugo

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
~George Burns

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
~John Junor

No man is wise enough by himself.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~ Baltasar Gracian

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~Sandara Carey

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~David Star Jordan

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
~Sophocles

The more you know, the less you need to show.
~Unknown

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~Doug Larson

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
~B. J. Palmer.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~St. Augustine

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
~Jonathan Swift.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~ William Shakespeare

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
~William Blake

Wisdom begins at the end.
~Daniel Webster

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~George Bernard Shaw.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
~Michel de Montaigne

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
~Swedish Proverb

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
~Seneca.

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
~Leonid Andreyev

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~Elbert Hubbard

If you have read though all the quotations, you will have become wiser.