100+ Compelling Bad Luck Quotes to Navigate Unfortunate Times
Here's a collection of quotes to remind us that even during the darkest moments, humor and resilience can light the way. In challenging times, wisdom shared through these quotes can provide comfort and perspective. Dive into this compilation of 10 themed sections, each providing a fresh outlook on the concept of bad luck. Here's to finding humor, strength, and wisdom in the face of adversity.
"Sometimes you’re the bug, sometimes you’re the windshield."
"If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all."
"Bad luck leads to good stories."
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
"Every cloud has a silver lining, except the one's over my head."
"Murphy's law knows me by name."
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."
"When it rains, it pours… mainly on me."
"Fate has a strange sense of humor with me."
"Even the darkest night will end with the sun, eventually."
"Luck was never on my side, maybe it just got lost."
"My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot."
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, you've never spent a night with a mosquito."
"If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you."
"I'm great at multitasking: I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once."
"If things go wrong, don’t go with them."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"Chance favors the prepared mind. Or maybe just the distracted."
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they will never cease to be amused."
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak."
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target."
"It's not the time to worry yet." - Harper Lee
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"All is not lost unless you give up." - Robert Grudin
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." - Laurence J. Peter
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune is expensive smile." - Emily Dickinson
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens." - Helen Keller
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."
"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
"Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument."
"There is no education like adversity."
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"To survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
"Some days you eat salads and go to the gym, some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to put on pants. It’s called balance."
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
"Survival is not mandatory."
"Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway."
"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."
"It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce."
"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."
"We are stronger in the places that we've been broken."
"Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."
"Chaos is well kindled, but it is the light of creativity."
"Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free."
"In midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
"There is no certainty; there is only adventure."
"Just because you’re having a bad day doesn’t mean you’re having a bad life."
"Storms make trees take deeper roots."
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
"The best view comes after the hardest climb."
"Stars can’t shine without darkness."
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game."
"Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life."
"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."
"This too shall pass."
"Sunshine follows thunder and lightning."
"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
"Some days I don’t eat salads and go to the gym, some days I eat donuts and refuse to wear pants."
"Another fine day ruined by responsibilities."
"If Mondays were shoes, they'd be Crocs."
"Nothing screws up your Friday like realizing it’s only Tuesday."
"Why is Monday so far from Friday and Friday so close to Monday?"
"Reality called, so I hung up."
"Can we restart the day? I wasn’t ready."
"Me: I think I'm going to start being more adventurous this year. Tomorrow is going to be my lucky day. Also me: turns off alarm and goes back to bed."
"I've learned so much from my mistakes, I'm thinking of making a few more."
"Does anyone have a plan? Or at least a map of somewhere better?"
"The trouble with being punctual: nobody's there to appreciate it."
"You drown not by falling in the river, but by staying submerged."
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something."
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
"One who makes no mistakes never makes anything."
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
"Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."
"Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle."
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."
"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
"If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
"You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up."
