Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

2.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

3.

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

Proverb, German

4.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

5.

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

6.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

7.

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

Kroc, Ray

8.

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

9.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

10.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

19.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

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

Thomas, David

21.

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

22.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

26.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

27.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

29.

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

Davies, Robertson

30.

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

31.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

32.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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.

34.

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

Bible

35.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Shay, R. E.

44.

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

Langston Coleman

45.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

Sher, Barbara

49.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

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