Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck's always to blame.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Langston Coleman

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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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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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 infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Jean Cocteau

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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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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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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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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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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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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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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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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 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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, German

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Winwood, Steve

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Thomas, David

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

Dickinson, Emily