Motivational Quotes

Luck

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Luck

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Proverb, German

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Thomas, David

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

Bible

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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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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Blake, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sher, Barbara

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Davies, Robertson

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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 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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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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 is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Langston Coleman

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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 marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson