People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial¹ Navigation

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry² Golden (1902 - 1981)

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)