Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

Jean Cocteau

2.

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

Bible

3.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

4.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

5.

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

Lowell, James Russell

6.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

11.

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

Hawken, Paul

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

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

Robbins, Anthony

14.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

15.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

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

Shay, R. E.

18.

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

Kroc, Ray

19.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

20.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

21.

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

Shoen, Sam

22.

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

23.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

24.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

29.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

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.

31.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

34.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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.

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

37.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

38.

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

Winwood, Steve

39.

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