Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck's always to blame.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Proverb, German

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

Blake, William

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Langston Coleman

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

Shoen, Sam

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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.

John Hay

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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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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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

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

Thomas, David