Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Lowell, James Russell

2.

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

Langston Coleman

3.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

4.

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

5.

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

6.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

7.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

8.

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

9.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Kroc, Ray

11.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Davies, Robertson

12.

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

Thomas, David

13.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

14.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

15.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

20.

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

21.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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.

23.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

24.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

26.

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

Pollock, Channing

27.

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

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Shay, R. E.

30.

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

31.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Winwood, Steve

38.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

Proverb, German

43.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

44.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

50.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian