Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Luck

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

Josefowitz, Natasha

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Winwood, Steve

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

Webster, John

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Kleiser, Grenville

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Lowell, James Russell

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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

Blake, William

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Bush, Barbara

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I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Shoen, Sam

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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

Collier, Robert

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There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]

Bible

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I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Kroc, Ray

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Tracy, Brian

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.

Bible

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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Shay, R. E.

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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay

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Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Korda, Michael

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Foucault, Michel

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Pollock, Channing

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Cherbuliez, Victor

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Davies, Robertson

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

Sher, Barbara