May These St. Patrick's Day Quotes Bring You Luck (2024)

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have."

"May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night."

"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination," Shaw once said, according to The Telegraph.

“Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up," wrote the award-winning author in his 1990 book, The Things They Carried.

In his book Caravan of Dreams, the author and thinker in the Sufi tradition wrote, "'When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?'"

"Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin," wrote the YA fantasy novelist in her book King of Fools.

“I’ve always believed in luck. I love the fact that people can change their lives instantly," the journalist and author wrote in her New York Times bestselling book, The Widow.

“You’ve got to think lucky. If you fall into a mud hole, check your back pocket. You might have caught a fish," said the late college football player and coach, as quoted in The New York Times.

In her book Tears of the Moon, the prolific, bestselling romance novelist wrote, "Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels."

“That’s right, there’s free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone’s jealous," the New York Times bestselling urban fantasy novelist wrote in his book Hammered.

"Yeah, it's St. Paddy's Day, everyone's Irish tonight," said the actor Norman Reedus’s character in Boondock Saints. "Why don't you just pull up a stool and have a drink with us?"

“When it comes to luck you make your own," sang the 20-time Grammy Award winning rock musician in his song “Lucky Town.”

In the October 2001 issue of Esquire, the late country music singer said, "You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it."

“Luck is not chance / It’s Toil / Fortune’s expensive smile / Is earned,” the 19th century American poet wrote in Luck is not chance.

"May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door," is an old Irish blessing, frequently recounted.

“Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true,” author Richelle E. Goodrich wrote in Making Wishes.

"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky," Winfrey said in the July 2003 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it,” Pope John Paul II said during a holy mass in 1979.