Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Luck

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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.

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

Sher, Barbara

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, German

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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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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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 a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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

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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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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 marches with those who give their very best