Lucky Finds: Inspirational Four Leaf Clover Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers."

- Walter P. Chrysler

"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."

- L. M. Montgomery

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats

"One leaf is for hope, and one is for faith, And one is for love, you know, And God put another one in for luck — If you search you will find where they grow."

- Ella Higginson

"There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t met."

- William Butler Yeats

"Be yourself because everyone else is taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"O little four-leaf clover With leaves of emerald hue, I'd roam the wide fields over To get a glimpse of you. More sought than any flower That grows in field or dell, Luck upon thy leaves has power, Fate has bound thee with a spell."

- Mary D. McIntosh

"Oh, four-leaf clover, ha! ha! ha! I've hunted near, I've hunted far, And now I've found you, tell me true What luck will come to me thro' you?"

- Mary D. Brine

"A clover that sprouts four leaves, rather than three, is a mutation and is considered 'lucky' according to Irish mythology. Why? According to Celtic lore, each leaf of clover represents something special. One leaf represents faith, one hope, one love and, and , if a fourth leaf is present, that's luck."

- Leslie Le Mon

"Four-leaf clovers," she said. "I've been finding them everywhere, in the oddest places." Star stepped out of the garden bed and gently plucked the clover from Georgia's hand, pinching it between her fingers. "Well, look at that," she said softly. She glanced at Georgia. "My grandma Emma was Irish, raised near Galway---that's where our red hair comes from--- and she loved four-leaf clovers. Always felt they connected her with the country of her birth."

- Rachel Linden

"I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells! I would not waste my magic might on diamond, pearl, or gold, For treasure tires the weary sense,— such triumph is but cold; But I would play th' enchanter's part, in casting bliss around,— Oh! not a tear, nor aching heart, should in the world be found..."

- Samuel Lover

"Oh! little four-leaf clover, I will believe in you; Let those who will be scornful— I know you've told me true."

- Bertha J. Sherwood

"Lounging upon the emerald green Whose slope the trees of the forest screen, A family group are searching over The triune leaves for the four-leaf clover... A bird droppeth down from its perch on high, A butterfly aimlessly floateth by: They too in the green and drifting over Seem counting the leaves for four-leaf clover. Like rarest beauties of heart and of mind, So rare things in nature we seek to find— Ah, loveliest spot the gaze may cover, That vine-sheltered knoll of sweet white clover."

- Emily Thornton Charles

"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?"

- Stanisław Jerzy Lec

"They say there's a charm in the four-leaf clover And so I will search the whole field over; Over the fragrant grass bent low, To see if the prize hid there, or no."

- Mary D. Brine

"Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are the little stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our chaotic world."

- Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

"The queen of the fairies walked in the meadows in the early morning. She threw herself down upon the soft, green dew-sparkled grasses and took a nap. She dreamed of four-leaved clover, its shadow marking the fairies' resting place. When she awoke, she saw that it was just a bed of everyday three-leaved clover that the cattle loved to bite. Plucking a leaf, she pulled off one of its leaflets and placed it on another stem, making a four-leaf clover, and she healed the new leaf fast with a kiss. "Grow, my clover, and bear more four leaves; for your shadow marks the spot where a fairy has slept.""

- May H. Horton

"If you overvalue the uncommon, you spoil the uncommon and it begins to think of itself as something very precious! Don’t forget, a three-leaf clover is as valuable as the five-leaf-clover!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Oh, four leaf clover, ha! ha! ha! I think a little fraud you are, But whether false or whether true, It's only fun to hunt for you."

- Mary D. Brine

"A little four-leaf clover That by the wayside grew, She stooping plucked and fastened Within her dainty shoe..."

- Mary D. McIntosh

"Down among the orchard-grass, A happy, careless rover, The pretty little girl Goes hunting four-leaf clover..."

- Jennie E. T. Dowe

"In four out of every five watches brought us to be regulated, repaired, or cleaned, we find some token. Sometimes it is a bit of ribbon or lock of hair, or a rose petal. But oftener it's a four-leaf clover. The four-leaf clover is a love-token always. It is by the maiden fair given to her lover, who tenderly stows it away in the back of his watch-case."

- Jewelers' Weekly

"Polly fell to looking for four-leaf clovers so industriously that Mary soon slipped from her seat to vie with her. "Here's a five-leaf," cried Mary. "But I found a seven-leaf yesterday," said Polly, triumphantly. It was a famous white clover patch, this one under Polly's swing. Nowhere else could you find so many "many-leafed" clovers in ten minutes as here."

- Avis Gordon

"May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back."

- Irish Blessing

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

"For each petal on the shamrock, this brings a wish your way: Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day."

"There is luck in leisure."