Contributed by Paul Seaburn, Catalogs.com Top 10 Guru
If you’ve been looking for luck in all the wrong places, you’ve come to the right place.
Whether you need a toast for a going-away party, a wish for a birthday greeting or something to write on your palm before pulling the slots in Vegas, these good luck messages are here to help. Read them, write them, shout them from the highest mountain and then stand back and let the good luck messages do their thing.
10. On being prepared
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca – Roman dramatist, philosopher and politician
9. On being the worm
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. On sea-worthiness
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
William Shakespeare
7. On the unexplainable
“Good luck needs no explanation.”
Shirley Temple Black
6. On another day
“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.”
Og Mandino
5. On the Irish
For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way –
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
Author Unknown
4. On sticking with it
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin
3. On the flipside
“Bad luck for one man is good luck for another.”
African Proverb
2. On making your own
“I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson
1. On stage
“Break a leg.”
Traditional theatrical superstition