Motivational Quotes

Luck

When God throws the dice are loaded.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Luck

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

10.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

11.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

12.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

13.

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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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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 marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

31.

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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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 seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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 being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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? 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