The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
—Douglas MacArthur
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.
—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
—P.J. O'Rourke
It is bad luck to be superstitious.
—Andrew W. Mathis
Fortune and love favor the brave.
—Ovid
A civilization which tends to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a fortunate few, and to make of others mere human machines, must inevitably evolve anarchy and bring destruction.
—Henry George
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
—Suzanne Necker
The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
—Rose Kennedy
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
—John Irving
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
—Voltaire
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune.
—Walt Whitman