Motivational Quotes

Luck

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Luck

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Kroc, Ray

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 infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Bible

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

Langston Coleman

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 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 very good word if you put a P before it.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

Blake, William

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

Davies, Robertson

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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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