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Good Luck Quotes - Page 4

...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.23

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.338, Hackett Publishing

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

"Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1210, Delphi Classics

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing