Motivational Quotes

Luck

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

- Oates, Joyce Carol

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Thomas, David

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Shay, R. E.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Winwood, Steve

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bible

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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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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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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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Harris, Joel Chandler

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Bible

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, German

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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