Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

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Best Quotes about Luck

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Bible

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

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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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 is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Kroc, Ray

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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 harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.