Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Hawken, Paul

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas, David

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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 marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Shoen, Sam

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Langston Coleman

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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? 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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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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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 a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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