Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Thomas, David

Best Quotes about Luck

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

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

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Winwood, Steve

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

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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 seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

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

Shoen, Sam

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 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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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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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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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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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

Bible

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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