Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Proverb, German

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

Jean Cocteau

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

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

Thomas, David

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

Shoen, Sam

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

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

Bible

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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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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.

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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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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

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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

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Davies, Robertson

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Winwood, Steve

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

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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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Kleiser, Grenville

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Sher, Barbara

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Robbins, Anthony

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