Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Davies, Robertson

4.

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

5.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

7.

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

Pollock, Channing

8.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

Josefowitz, Natasha

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Sher, Barbara

14.

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

Kroc, Ray

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

18.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

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

Dickinson, Emily

20.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

21.

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

22.

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

Shay, R. E.

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Proverb, German

26.

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

27.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

28.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

29.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

31.

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

32.

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

Langston Coleman

33.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

35.

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Korda, Michael

36.

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

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

39.

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

40.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

41.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

42.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

43.

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