Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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.

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

Shay, R. E.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

11.

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

Shoen, Sam

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Thomas, David

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

31.

Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

34.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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 tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel