Motivational Quotes

Luck

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

- Harry Golden

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

5.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

6.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Davies, Robertson

7.

Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

8.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

9.

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

Winwood, Steve

10.

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

Pollock, Channing

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

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

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

16.

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

17.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

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

20.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

22.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

23.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

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

Hawken, Paul

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

29.

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

30.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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

Sher, Barbara

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Thomas, David

35.

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

36.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Shoen, Sam

38.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Jean Cocteau

42.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

43.

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

Kroc, Ray

44.

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.