Motivational Quotes

Luck

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

- Oates, Joyce Carol

Best Quotes about Luck

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

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Thomas, David

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Langston Coleman

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

Davies, Robertson

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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? 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 is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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