Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Kroc, Ray

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pollock, Channing

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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

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

Proverb, German

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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 worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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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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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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Blake, William

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

Sher, Barbara

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Langston Coleman

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

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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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 harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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 harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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