Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Pollock, Channing

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Bible

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

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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

Langston Coleman

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.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Blake, William

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

Kroc, Ray

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

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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 harder I work the luckier I get.

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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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Luck's always to blame.