Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cherbuliez, Victor

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

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

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

Kroc, Ray

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Langston Coleman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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 is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bible

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

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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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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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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Thomas, David

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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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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo