Motivational Quotes

Luck

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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Bible

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Shay, R. E.

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Blake, William

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Bible

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Shoen, Sam

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Thomas, David

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah