These St. Patrick's Day Quotes Will Bring You Good Luck on March 17, Even If You're Not Irish

As the saying goes, everybody's Irish on St. Paddy's Day! To celebrate this lively Irish holiday taking place on March 17, we've rounded up some of the best St. Patrick's Day quotes so you can raise a glass to the patron saint of Éire — and hopefully earn some good luck for the new year (even if you're not able to find a four-leaf clover or meet a leprechaun this year).

Before slipping into your best green outfit and grabbing a festive St. Patrick's Day drink to toast the holiday, read and repeat these quotes to yourself to celebrate the spirit of St. Patrick's — then listen to these great Irish songs and watch the best Irish movies for even more good luck for the day.

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time — a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.

"May your best day of your past be the worst day of your future."

"May the roof above us never fall in. And may the friends fathered below it never fall out."

"You can take a man of Ireland, but you can't take out the Irishness of the man."

"A wish that every day for you will be happy from the start and may you always have good luck and a song within your heart."

“May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go."

For the whole world is Irish on the Seventeenth o' March!

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

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

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

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

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels.

"I have noticed that timing and luck sometimes line up in such a way that you can catch a break."

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

You're not in America now, you're in Ireland. So have a drink and shut up.

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

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Yeah, it's St. Paddy's Day. Everyone's Irish tonight.

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick.

That's what the holidays are for — for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I'm not going to a distant world. I'm of Ireland, and I'll stay in Ireland until I die!

I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland.

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know.

Be still.Be.

If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go — you’ll find family.

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

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.