Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Harris, Joel Chandler

Best Quotes about Luck

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 tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Shay, R. E.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

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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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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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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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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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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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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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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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Luck's always to blame.