Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck marches with those who give their very best

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Dickinson, Emily

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Proverb, German

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Langston Coleman

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Thomas, David

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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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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Kroc, Ray

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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