Motivational Quotes

Luck

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Player, Gary

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thomas, David

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Langston Coleman

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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'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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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 only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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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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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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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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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 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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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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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, German

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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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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