Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Bible

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Shoen, Sam

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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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 what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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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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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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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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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 a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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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