Quotes about luck
56 quotes from 47 people
Sophocles496–406 BCAjax, Lines 550–551 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. White1899–1985Here is New York (1949)I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919“Will,” included in Maurine: And Other Poems, p. 145 (1882)Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
