Ralph Waldo Emerson Luck Quotations

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

Shallow men believe in luck.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

The dice of God are always loaded.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.