Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Luck

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

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

Shay, R. E.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Sher, Barbara

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

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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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Proverb, German

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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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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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Blake, William

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

Langston Coleman

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.