Gambling Quotes

"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
- Jean Cocteau

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
- Benjamin Franklin

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

"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The champion makes his own luck."
- Red Blaik

"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them."
- P.J. O'Rourke

"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."
- Orson Welles

"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."
- E.B. White

"Shallow men believe in luck."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
- Ray Kroc

"I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get."
- Sam Shoen

"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."
- Robert Collier

"Everything in life is luck."
- Donald Trump

"There is no such thing as luck."
- from "Star Wars"

"Luck's always to blame."
- Jean de la Fontaine

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- President Thomas Jefferson

"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
- R. E. Shay

"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
- Wilson Mizner

"Luck is not a factor."
- Lindsay Brigman from "The Abyss" (1989)

"Fortune favours the bold."
- Terence 190-159 BC