Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Bible

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Shay, R. E.

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

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

10.

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

Jean Cocteau

11.

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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

14.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

15.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

18.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Winwood, Steve

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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. He's lucky, an envious person remarks. He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor. In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called luck usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by pull, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

28.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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

34.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

35.

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Sher, Barbara

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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 the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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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

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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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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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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.