“You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.”

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“I feel that destiny is a mixture of preparation and luck. You can be very lucky, but it is useless if you're not prepared. You can be prepared, but it is useless if you're not lucky.”

Luis Miguel (1970) Puerto Rican singer; music producer

“And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

Jane Austen book Emma

“Quize is a luck game.
If you are lucky enough, you will win.
It would be fair if they would let everyone answer to the same question.”

Md Mim Akhtar

“Theory of selection /…/ leaves untouched all that can be inferred from the existence of the conditions which make organic evolution possible: matter which lives, multiplies, and varies; an environment which possesses the marvellously complex constitution required to make these processes possible. /…/ it cannot produce either the original environment or the original living matter. These must be due either to luck or to contrivance; and, if they be due to luck, the luck (we must own) is great. How great we cannot say.”

Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) British Conservative politician and statesman

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

“It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men