Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

2.

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

Davies, Robertson

3.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

4.

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

5.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

6.

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

7.

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

Winwood, Steve

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

12.

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

Shoen, Sam

13.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

14.

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

15.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

17.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

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

Dickinson, Emily

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

Kroc, Ray

26.

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

27.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

28.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

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.

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

32.

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

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

Pollock, Channing

34.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

37.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

40.

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

Blake, William

41.

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

42.

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

Jean Cocteau

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

45.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

46.

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

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

Langston Coleman

49.

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

Shay, R. E.

50.

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.