Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Josefowitz, Natasha

Best Quotes about Luck

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Blake, William

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Thomas, David

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Langston Coleman

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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'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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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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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

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Bible

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, German

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Sher, Barbara

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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