Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

2.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

3.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, German

6.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

7.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

8.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

9.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

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

11.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Thomas, David

14.

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

15.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

16.

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

17.

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

Hawken, Paul

18.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

19.

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

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Winwood, Steve

27.

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

Lowell, James Russell

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Jean Cocteau

31.

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

Blake, William

32.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

33.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Davies, Robertson

38.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

40.

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

Kroc, Ray

41.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

46.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

47.

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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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

Langston Coleman