Motivational Quotes

Luck

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Player, Gary

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

6.

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

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

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

Dickinson, Emily

9.

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

10.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

11.

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

12.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

13.

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

14.

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

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

16.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

20.

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

Kroc, Ray

21.

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

22.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

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.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

28.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

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

Shoen, Sam

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

Shay, R. E.

33.

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

34.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Thomas, David

36.

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

37.

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