Motivational Quotes

Luck

When God throws the dice are loaded.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Proverb, German

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

Thomas, David

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Winwood, Steve

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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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sher, Barbara

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Langston Coleman

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Blake, William

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