Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Pollock, Channing

2.

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

Shay, R. E.

3.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

4.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

5.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

6.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

7.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

8.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

9.

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

Bible

10.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

12.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

13.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

17.

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

18.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

23.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

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.

26.

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

Hawken, Paul

27.

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

Langston Coleman

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

31.

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

32.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

33.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

34.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

35.

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

Shoen, Sam

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Winwood, Steve

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Sher, Barbara

50.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek