Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Winwood, Steve

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Bible

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Thomas, David

10.

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

11.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

Hawken, Paul

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

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

Proverb, German

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

24.

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

25.

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

Jean Cocteau

26.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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 being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

30.

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

31.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

32.

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.

33.

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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

37.

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

38.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

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

Shoen, Sam

44.

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

Davies, Robertson

45.

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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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

48.

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

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

Shay, R. E.