Great Gambling Quotations - What Is Luck

What Is Luck?

Anyone who frequents UK casinos or enjoys playing in online casinos will have had plenty of opportunity to muse on that most mysterious of characters, Lady Luck.

But is there really such a thing as luck? Are some people naturally luckier than others? Can you make your own? We've scoured the works of thinkers, novelists, playwrights and filmmakers to come up with some thoughtful answers to these tantalising questions.

"In the queer mess of human destiny, the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them, luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity."
William E Woodward

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

"You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky. To hold front position in this rat race, you've got to believe you're lucky."
Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
Joseph Conrad

"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighbouring saloon and does not hear her."
Mark Twain

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

"Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it was a bet, you wouldn't take it."
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"Brains will only get you so far, and luck always runs out."
Harvey Keitel, in Thelma and Louise

"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
Jean Cocteau

"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold."
Yiddish proverb

"Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him."
German Proverb

"Luck never gives; it only lends."
Swedish Proverb

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realising what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball

"Everything in life is luck."
Donald Trump

"Luck never made a man wise."
Seneca

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
Shakespeare

"I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice."
Albert Einstein

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
Franklin Roosevelt

"Good luck needs no explanation."
Shirley Temple

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

"Fortune favours the bold."
Terence

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

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

"No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck."
German Proverb

"Go and wake up your luck"
Persian proverb