Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Luck

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

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

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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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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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Kroc, Ray

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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 a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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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 is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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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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 is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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

Shoen, Sam

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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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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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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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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 worst cynicism: a belief in luck.