Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.

You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps read more

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.

A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast read more

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.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's read more

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck
Shall fling her old shoe after.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck
Shall fling her old shoe after.