Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck marches with those who give their very best

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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.

2.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

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

4.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

5.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

6.

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

Pollock, Channing

7.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

8.

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

Bible

9.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

10.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

11.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

12.

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

13.

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

Davies, Robertson

14.

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

Jean Cocteau

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

17.

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

Shoen, Sam

18.

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

Shay, R. E.

19.

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

20.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

21.

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

22.

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

Hawken, Paul

23.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

29.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

30.

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

31.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Langston Coleman

33.

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

34.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

35.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

40.

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

Thomas, David

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Lowell, James Russell

45.

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

46.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

48.

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

49.

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

50.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)