Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Luck

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

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.

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

Sher, Barbara

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Proverb, German

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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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Bible

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Pollock, Channing

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Thomas, David

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Kroc, Ray

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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.