Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck's always to blame.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Langston Coleman

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

Robbins, Anthony

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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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 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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Blake, William

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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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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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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