Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

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

Pollock, Channing

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Blake, William

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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 is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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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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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

Grisham, John

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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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 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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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Hawken, Paul

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.