Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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 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 seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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

Langston Coleman

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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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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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Blake, William

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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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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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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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Winwood, Steve

39.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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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

43.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Shoen, Sam

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