Motivational Quotes

Luck

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Luck

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Proverb, German

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thomas, David

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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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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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Bible

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Blake, William

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Langston Coleman

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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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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 luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Hawken, Paul

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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