Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck is being ready for the chance.

- Doble, J. Frank

Best Quotes about Luck

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Langston Coleman

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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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 marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bible

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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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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 seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Thomas, David

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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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 infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Kroc, Ray

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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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 only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden