Motivational Quotes

Luck

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Dickinson, Emily

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Jean Cocteau

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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

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

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb, German

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

Thomas, David

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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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'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 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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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 being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Bible

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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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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