Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

Bible

2.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Pollock, Channing

4.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

5.

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

Davies, Robertson

6.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

9.

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

Sher, Barbara

10.

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

Langston Coleman

11.

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

12.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

13.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

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

Kroc, Ray

16.

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

Hawken, Paul

17.

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

18.

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

Shay, R. E.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Robbins, Anthony

23.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

24.

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Leacock, Stephen B.

25.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

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

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Proverb, German

29.

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

Thomas, David

30.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

32.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

33.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

35.

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

36.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

37.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

42.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand