Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

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

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Bible

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

Shoen, Sam

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

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

Sher, Barbara

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Winwood, Steve

34.

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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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

36.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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 harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.