Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Luck

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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 a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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.

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

Winwood, Steve

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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

22.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

23.

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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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Shoen, Sam

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

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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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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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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 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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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Langston Coleman

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

Bible

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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