Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Luck

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Harris, Joel Chandler

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dickinson, Emily

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Langston Coleman

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Thomas, David

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

Proverb, German

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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 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 is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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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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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Bible

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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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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

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Doisneau, Robert

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand