Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Gracian, Baltasar

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Davies, Robertson

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Bible

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, David

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

Langston Coleman

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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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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 very good word if you put a P before it.

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

Hawken, Paul

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. He's lucky, an envious person remarks. He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor. In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called luck usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by pull, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.